“I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. — Flannery O'Connor People Copy Share Image
Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we… — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be… — Flannery O'Connor Doctor Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. — Flannery O'Connor Acceptance Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Chance Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like being pleased with your own work - and this is the best stage - before it is published… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses.… — Flannery O'Connor Bible Copy Share Image
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason… — Flannery O'Connor Ability Copy Share Image
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is… — Flannery O'Connor Faith Copy Share Image
“I have tried imagining that the single peacock I see before me is the only one I have, but then one comes… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as… — Flannery O'Connor Balance Copy Share Image
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime. — Flannery O'Connor Childhood Copy Share Image
Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes. — Flannery O'Connor Children Copy Share Image
If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle. — Flannery O'Connor Meaning Copy Share Image
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his life.” — Flannery O'Connor Childhood Copy Share Image
“This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. — Flannery O'Connor Burden Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts. — Flannery O'Connor Birth Copy Share Image
“How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. — Flannery O'Connor Georgia Copy Share Image
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. — Flannery O'Connor Ashamed Copy Share Image
“Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?” — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“Sin is a great thing as long as it's recognized. It leads a good many people to God who wouldn't get there… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
![“[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/78d/flannery-o-connor-639_firsts_to-know-oneself-is-above-all-to-know-wha_1930035.png)
