“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 Darkness Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will… — Flannery O'Connor Afterlife 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… — Flannery O'Connor 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 Writing Copy Share Image
Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him. — Flannery O'Connor Pleasure Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Blind 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… — Flannery O'Connor Compassion 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 Atheism 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… — Flannery O'Connor Accounts 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 Truth 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 1956 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… — Flannery O'Connor Character 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
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
“Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he… — Flannery O'Connor Fiction Copy Share Image
Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy, — Flannery O'Connor Child of god Copy Share Image
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you… — Flannery O'Connor Believe 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
“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.” — Flannery O'Connor Growing older 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 Atheism Copy Share Image
There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will… — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing. — Flannery O'Connor Blessing Copy Share Image
