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No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.
Flannery O'Connor • A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
I do admire the terror which Negroes are able to inspire in the hearts of some members of the white proletariat and only wish (This is a rather personal confession.) that I possessed the ability to similarly terrorize. The Negro terrorizes simply by being himself;I, however, must browbeat a bit in order to achieve the same end. Perhaps I should hav
... See moreWalker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
For Flannery O’Connor, ‘the teacher’s work should be largely negative . . . We can learn how not to write.’ But it would be terrible to discourage novice writers by pointing out their failings in public.
Miranda France • The Writing School
