"My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood."

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There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

— Flannery O'Connor