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
I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
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 think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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 brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.
Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.