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
It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.
All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?
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.
No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.
People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
From the time I was 6 years old I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
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.
Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?
It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart.
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?