“When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've… — Flannery O'Connor Gratitude Copy Share Image
“Symbols are something [the writer] uses simply as a matter of course. You might say that theses are details that, while having… — Flannery O'Connor Writing Copy Share Image
Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts. — Flannery O'Connor Birth Copy Share Image
“I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from… — Flannery O'Connor Christianity Copy Share Image
“Unless we are willing to accept our artists as they are, the answer to the question, "Who speaks for America today?" will… — Flannery O'Connor Art 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 Given Copy Share Image
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. — Flannery O'Connor Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of "Wise Blood" that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote "Perhaps I… — Flannery O'Connor Southern-literature Copy Share Image
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. — Flannery O'Connor Ashamed Copy Share Image
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” — Flannery O'Connor Truth Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Education Copy Share Image
Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime. — Flannery O'Connor Childhood 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 Breathe Copy Share Image
“She could not make up her mind what would be inside his head and what out. She thought of her own head… — Flannery O'Connor Psychology Copy Share Image
You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness… — Flannery O'Connor Accounts Copy Share Image
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really… — Flannery O'Connor Behavior Copy Share Image
“Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?” — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled. — Flannery O'Connor Silver 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 Books 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 Again Copy Share Image
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other… — Flannery O'Connor Firsts 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 Average Copy Share Image
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture. — Flannery O'Connor Bounds Copy Share Image
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair… — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
“A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain… — Flannery O'Connor Empathy Copy Share Image
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