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
From the time I was 6 years old I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
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.
I was, am , severely dyslexic and couldn't spell, still can't spell. So I was discouraged from writing and embarrassed.
One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.
There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.
Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
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 have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.