I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it. — Flannery O'Connor Getting over it Copy Share Image
“Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.” — Flannery O'Connor Eschatology Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us… — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most… — Flannery O'Connor Action 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
“How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?” — Flannery O'Connor Time Copy Share Image
“Mr. Head stood very still and felt the action of mercy touch him again but this time he knew that there were… — Flannery O'Connor Compassion Copy Share Image
“I have got, over the years, a sense of the immense sweep of creation, of the evolutionary process in everything, of how… — Flannery O'Connor Christian faith Copy Share Image
The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. — Flannery O'Connor Cutting Copy Share Image
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the… — Flannery O'Connor Said Copy Share Image
“No,” he said. Then he drew breath and said, “You got a nice place here. It’s a nice part of the country.… — Flannery O'Connor Getting Sick Copy Share Image
“He had never thought himself a great sinner before but he saw now that his true depravity had been hidden from him… — Flannery O'Connor God love Copy Share Image
“Jesus thrown everything off balance. It was the same case with Him as with me except He hadn't committed any crime and… — Flannery O'Connor Long ago Copy Share Image
“The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide… — Flannery O'Connor Darkness Copy Share Image
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be… — Flannery O'Connor Better person Copy Share Image
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. — Flannery O'Connor Childhood Copy Share Image
“She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Give me the grace to be impatient for the time when I shall see You face to face and need no stimulus… — Flannery O'Connor Face to face Copy Share Image
“Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been… — Flannery O'Connor Freedom Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the… — Flannery O'Connor Be good Copy Share Image
Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul. — Flannery O'Connor Dark Copy Share Image
Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have… — Flannery O'Connor Communication Copy Share Image
Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by… — Flannery O'Connor Bible Copy Share Image
I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe. — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor Distortion Copy Share Image
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