• The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

    Flannery O'Connor: The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.
    Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)