Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. — Flannery O'Connor Business Copy Share Image
“I have 50 or 60 pages on the [new] novel but I still expect to be a long time at it. It’s… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. — Flannery O'Connor Burden Copy Share Image
One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times… — Flannery O'Connor Book Copy Share Image
“You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.” — Flannery O'Connor Writing Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one. — Flannery O'Connor Forget Copy Share Image
“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew… — Flannery O'Connor Martyrdom Copy Share Image
One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it. — Flannery O'Connor Feels Copy Share Image
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love… — Flannery O'Connor Endure Copy Share Image
“Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of… — Flannery O'Connor Levels Copy Share Image
“His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.” — Flannery O'Connor Beautiful Copy Share Image
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
“Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar… — Flannery O'Connor Blessed sacrament Copy Share Image
“The straightforward manner is seldom equal to the complications of the good subject. There may never be anything new to say, but… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. — Flannery O'Connor Catholic Copy Share Image
“To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.” — Flannery O'Connor Psychology Copy Share Image
I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is… — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's… — Flannery O'Connor Appropriate Copy Share Image
Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle. — Flannery O'Connor Contrary Copy Share Image
