“What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.” — Flannery O'Connor Dreams Copy Share Image
Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for… — Flannery O'Connor Audience Copy Share Image
I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to… — Flannery O'Connor Air Copy Share Image
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which… — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
“I am largely worried about wingless chickens. I feel this is the time for me to fulfill myself by stepping in and… — Flannery O'Connor Chickens Copy Share Image
“Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations. That belief in Christ is to… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his… — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
“My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.” — Flannery O'Connor Christianity Copy Share Image
I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not,… — Flannery O'Connor Abortion Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no… — Flannery O'Connor Life Copy Share Image
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. — Flannery O'Connor Anger Copy Share Image
It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity. — Flannery O'Connor Charity Copy Share Image
“She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the… — Flannery O'Connor Parenting 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
“Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still… — Flannery O'Connor Faith Copy Share Image
“The highway was ragged with filling stations and trailer camps and roadhouses. After a while, there were stretches where red gulleys dropped… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to… — Flannery O'Connor Catholicism Copy Share Image
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. — Flannery O'Connor Despair Copy Share Image
“The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust.” — Flannery O'Connor Hope Copy Share Image
She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be… — Flannery O'Connor Doctors Copy Share Image
“The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going… — Flannery O'Connor Death 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
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
