I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing. — Flannery O'Connor Blessing Copy Share Image
“Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine. — Flannery O'Connor Culture Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Fiction Copy Share Image
“What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.” — Flannery O'Connor Dreams Copy Share Image
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.” — Flannery O'Connor Education Copy Share Image
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a… — Flannery O'Connor Heart Copy Share Image
One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times… — Flannery O'Connor Book Copy Share Image
... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
“She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it… — Flannery O'Connor Martyrdom Copy Share Image
Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to… — Flannery O'Connor Dark Copy Share Image
“Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been… — Flannery O'Connor Freedom Copy Share Image
“I am largely worried about wingless chickens. I feel this is the time for me to fulfill myself by stepping in and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He had never thought himself a great sinner before but he saw now that his true depravity had been hidden from him… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image… — Flannery O'Connor Backwoods Copy Share Image
The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted… — Flannery O'Connor Happiness Copy Share Image
“She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the… — Flannery O'Connor Eighth grade Copy Share Image
“He groaned to see that she was off on that topic. She rolled into it every few days like a train on… — Flannery O'Connor Fitness Copy Share Image
“Unless we are willing to accept our artists as they are, the answer to the question, "Who speaks for America today?" will… — Flannery O'Connor America today Copy Share Image
“The road looked as if no one had traveled on it in months. "It's not much farther," the grandmother said and just… — Flannery O'Connor Accident Copy Share Image
“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any… — Flannery O'Connor Human nature Copy Share Image
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and… — Flannery O'Connor Compassion Copy Share Image
“The highway was ragged with filling stations and trailer camps and roadhouses. After a while, there were stretches where red gulleys dropped… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“About hope, I am somewhat at a loss. It is so easy to say I hope to—the tongue slides over it. I… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Week before last I went to Wesleyan and read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” After it I went to one… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
