Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flaggis an American actress, comedian and author. She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–82 versions of the game show Match Game and for the 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes. Flagg was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 September 1944
CityBirmingham, AL
CountryUnited States of America
There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .
In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.
I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.
I was, am , severely dyslexic and couldn't spell, still can't spell. So I was discouraged from writing and embarrassed.
I wrote it in longhand as an 11-year-old girl and so all my misspelled words, they'll think I did it on purpose.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
From the time I was 6 years old I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.
I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.
I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.