Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. — Flannery O'Connor Business Copy Share Image
Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe. — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. — Flannery O'Connor Book Copy Share Image
...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art.” — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. — Flannery O'Connor Experience Copy Share Image
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of "Wise Blood" that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote "Perhaps I… — Flannery O'Connor Arrogance Copy Share Image
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Two people can remain "in love"-- a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism--only if their common desire for each other unites… — Flannery O'Connor Love Copy Share Image
I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the… — Flannery O'Connor Fiction Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation,… — Flannery O'Connor Audience Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language… — Flannery O'Connor Coming out Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.” — Flannery O'Connor Education Copy Share Image
“You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. — Flannery O'Connor Martyr Copy Share Image
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside. — Flannery O'Connor God Copy Share Image
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about… — Flannery O'Connor Character Copy Share Image
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself. — Flannery O'Connor Care Copy Share Image
“When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.” — Flannery O'Connor Creativity Copy Share Image
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.” — Flannery O'Connor Grandmother Copy Share Image
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor Discipline Copy Share Image
You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own. — Flannery O'Connor Christ Copy Share Image
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. — Flannery O'Connor Absence Copy Share Image
