At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O'ConnorA gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.
Flannery O'ConnorIt is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.
Flannery O'Connor