It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth — 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 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
“Thomas had inherited his father’s reason without his ruthlessness and his mother’s love of good without her tendency to pursue it. His… — 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 in… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Dear God please give me some place, no matter how small, but let me know it and keep it. If I am… — 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 Copy Share Image
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. — Flannery O'Connor 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 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 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 in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise… — Flannery O'Connor 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 Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor 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 darkness, rising… — Flannery O'Connor 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 good unless… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories… — Flannery O'Connor 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 no truth.” — 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
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
