“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and… — 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… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Leave!’ Hazel Motes cried. ‘Go ahead and leave! The truth don’t matter to you. Listen,’ he said, pointing his finger at the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“...they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth… — 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 Copy Share Image
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor 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
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 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
