If you want to be a writer, you have to keep an open mind ab... - Flannery O'Connor

This quote is attributed to Flannery O'Connor.

"If you want to be a writer, you have to keep an open mind about suicide."

Flannery O'Connor Humor

Novelist American 1925–1964

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