Famous quotes containing the words short and/or writing:
“Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people.”
—Nigel Short (b. 1965)
“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)