Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about… — Flannery O'Connor Character Copy Share Image
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor Discipline Copy Share Image
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as… — Flannery O'Connor Balance 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 All time Copy Share Image
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one… — Flannery O'Connor Blessing 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
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
“This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object… — Flannery O'Connor Abstract Copy Share Image
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots. — Flannery O'Connor Doctors Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Action Copy Share Image
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees. — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality,… — Flannery O'Connor Action Copy Share Image
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle. — Flannery O'Connor Muscles Copy Share Image
“The park was the heart of the city. He had come to the city – and with a knowing in his blood… — Flannery O'Connor Every day Copy Share Image
“I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!” — Flannery O'Connor God Copy Share Image
“I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.” — Flannery O'Connor Faith Copy Share Image
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's… — Flannery O'Connor Christ Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean… — Flannery O'Connor Difficult Copy Share Image
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide… — Flannery O'Connor Business Copy Share Image
“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
