A Quote by Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Flannery O'Connor

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Flannery O'Connor
American - Novelist
March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Kate O'Brien

In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

Flannery O'Connor

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.

Helen Rowland

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

William Moulton Marston

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.

Lily Cole

Do you know why men name their cocks?" "No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter. "So most of the major decisions in their lives won’t be made by a total stranger.

Linda Howard

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

Gary Neville

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.

Todd English

Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?

Victor Villasenor

Written reports stifle creativity.

Ross Perot

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

Tom Green

Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

Salman Rushdie

The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent

Utah Phillips

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