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

- Frank O'Connor

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the othe…

- Frank O'Connor

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

- 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

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

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 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

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 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