Famous quotes containing the words bad and/or writing:
“Surely Shakespeare is wicked, the map a bad example
With ships and sun and love tempting them to steal—”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)