The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as…

- Frank O'Connor

A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

- Frank O'Connor

I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.

- Frank O'Connor

No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

- Frank O'Connor

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us agai…

- Frank O'Connor

There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor i…

- Frank O'Connor

All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we h…

- Frank O'Connor

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

- Frank O'Connor

Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story …

- Frank O'Connor