o'connor Quotes

“Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.”

“Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.”

“Even a true artist does not always produce art.”

“All in the Family was intellectual it was art.”

“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.”

“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.”

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

“They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.”

“Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.”

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”