Writing Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
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Flannery O'Connor says a fiction writer finds meaning in the experience of the story, not just an abstract idea. She argues that good technique grows organically from the material, like a face that can’t be described by naming each eye or nose. She also notes that without hope people neither write novels nor read them, showing how hope fuels both creation and enjoyment.
![“[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet…” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/569/flannery-o-connor-639_catholicism_w-hat-one-has-as-a-born-catholic-is-some_2951481.jpg)
![“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won’t survive the ordeal.” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/225/flannery-o-connor-639_books_people-without-hope-do-not-write-novels_903687.png)
