When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be… — Flannery O'Connor Letter 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
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way… — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Chance Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like being pleased with your own work - and this is the best stage - before it is published… — Flannery O'Connor Letter 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 Bible Copy Share Image
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't… — Flannery O'Connor Dust Copy Share Image
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do… — Flannery O'Connor Biographies Copy Share Image
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested… — Flannery O'Connor Enough Copy Share Image
I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard… — Flannery O'Connor Amused Copy Share Image
“The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, “My daughter… — Flannery O'Connor Children 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 Symbol Copy Share Image
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Bad man Copy Share Image
“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you… — Flannery O'Connor Ayn-rand Copy Share Image
“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good… — Flannery O'Connor Fun Copy Share Image
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work… — Flannery O'Connor Every step Copy Share Image
“Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him… — Flannery O'Connor 1956 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
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 All kinds 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 Arrogance Copy Share Image
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential… — Flannery O'Connor Doe Copy Share Image
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is… — Flannery O'Connor Bigs Copy Share Image
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had… — Flannery O'Connor Blank 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 Love Copy Share Image
I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship… — Flannery O'Connor Being true Copy Share Image
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having… — Flannery O'Connor Certain Copy Share Image
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything… — Flannery O'Connor Balance Copy Share Image
The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists… — Flannery O'Connor Be prepared Copy Share Image
“He saw that for the rest of his days, frail, racked, but enduring, he would live in the face of a purifying… — Flannery O'Connor Holy ghost Copy Share Image
“Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [...] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like… — Flannery O'Connor Disciple Copy Share Image
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical.… — Flannery O'Connor Birth 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 their essential place in the literal level of the story, operate in depth as well as on the surface, increasing the story in every direction … the truer the symbol, the…” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fe7/flannery-o-connor-639_writing_symbols-are-something-the-writer-uses-si_1791562.jpg)
![“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won’t survive the ordeal.” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/225/flannery-o-connor-639_books_people-without-hope-do-not-write-novels_903687.jpg)
![“[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/78d/flannery-o-connor-639_firsts_to-know-oneself-is-above-all-to-know-wha_1930035.jpg)
![“Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [...] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like not to have a friend in the world?" "It ain't no worsen havinum that would put a knife in your back when you wasn't looking," the older man said, barely parting his lips.” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b1d/flannery-o-connor-639_disciple_listen-friends-said-the-disciple-confide_2412204.jpg)
