“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
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of… — Flannery O'Connor 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
“Nothing outside you can give you anyplace. You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements… — Flannery O'Connor 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
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 Copy Share Image
Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was… — Flannery O'Connor 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 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 Copy Share Image
I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the… — Flannery O'Connor 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
“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 Copy Share Image
If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one. — 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
“Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he… — 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
“How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?” — 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Give me the grace to be impatient for the time when I shall see You face to face and need no stimulus… — Flannery O'Connor 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
“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
