The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you… — Flannery O'Connor Done Copy Share Image
I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest… — Flannery O'Connor Believable Copy Share Image
Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to… — Flannery O'Connor Dear Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in classes where students criticize each other’s manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery,… — Flannery O'Connor Writing 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
We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they… — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine. — Flannery O'Connor Culture Copy Share Image
The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have… — Flannery O'Connor Blood 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
There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“As was usual with him, he began with the least important thing and worked around and in toward the center where the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that… — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
“Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He groaned to see that she was off on that topic. She rolled into it every few days like a train on… — Flannery O'Connor Fitness Copy Share Image
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity. — Flannery O'Connor Charity Copy Share Image
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
“The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art.” — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. — Flannery O'Connor Being true Copy Share Image
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. — Flannery O'Connor Men Copy Share Image
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. — Flannery O'Connor Concern Copy Share Image
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. — Flannery O'Connor Devil Copy Share Image
