The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in… — Flannery O'Connor Church Copy Share Image
I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. — Flannery O'Connor Christ Copy Share Image
“Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked.” — Flannery O'Connor Grandfather Copy Share Image
“Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. — Flannery O'Connor Ability Copy Share Image
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. — Flannery O'Connor Crossroads Copy Share Image
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through… — Flannery O'Connor Abstraction Copy Share Image
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I have 50 or 60 pages on the [new] novel but I still expect to be a long time at it. It’s… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Do you think, Mr. Motes,” she said hoarsely, “that when you’re dead, you’re blind?” “I hope so,” he said after a minute.… — Flannery O'Connor Blind Copy Share Image
We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and… — Flannery O'Connor And Copy Share Image
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be… — Flannery O'Connor Better person Copy Share Image
“Man's desire for God is bedded in his unconscious & seeks to satisfy itself in physical possession of another human. This necessarily… — Flannery O'Connor Desire Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Abstract Copy Share Image
I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going… — Flannery O'Connor Death Copy Share Image
I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when… — Flannery O'Connor Christian Copy Share Image
She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse… — Flannery O'Connor Education Copy Share Image
“You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her… — Flannery O'Connor Approach Copy Share Image
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady,… — Flannery O'Connor Book Copy Share Image
I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) — Flannery O'Connor August Copy Share Image
“Did you see the picture of Roy Rogers's horse attending a church service in Pasadena? I forgot whether his name was Tex… — Flannery O'Connor Church service Copy Share Image
“Parker sat for a long time on the ground in the alley behind the pool hall, examining his soul. He saw it… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it… — Flannery O'Connor Cautious Copy Share Image
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more… — Flannery O'Connor Abandonment Copy Share Image
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