“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” — Flannery O'Connor Truth Copy Share Image
Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding — Flannery O'Connor Be prepared 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
In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough. — Flannery O'Connor College Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lived to the age of eighteen has enough stories to last a lifetime.” — Flannery O'Connor Lifetime 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
“No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.” — Flannery O'Connor Atheist Copy Share Image
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you… — Flannery O'Connor Generation Copy Share Image
I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way… — Flannery O'Connor Believe 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
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
I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship… — Flannery O'Connor Being true Copy Share Image
“Two people can remain "in love"-- a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism--only if their common desire for each other unites… — Flannery O'Connor Love Copy Share Image
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had… — Flannery O'Connor Blank Copy Share Image
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual… — Flannery O'Connor Certain Copy Share Image
“In short, I am amenable to criticism, but only within the sphere of what I am trying to do; I will not… — Flannery O'Connor Amenable 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 Martyr 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
“She could not make up her mind what would be inside his head and what out. She thought of her own head… — Flannery O'Connor Heart Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Average Copy Share Image
“My mamma and I have interesting literary discussions like the following which took place over some Modern Library books that I had… — Flannery O'Connor Idiot 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
“Two people can remain 'in love'—a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism—only if their common desire for each other unites in… — Flannery O'Connor Love Copy Share Image
“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a… — Flannery O'Connor Death 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
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
“ Wise Blood has reached the age of ten and is still alive. My critical powers are just sufficient to determine this,… — Flannery O'Connor Flannery-o-connor Copy Share Image
“I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe. I know… — Flannery O'Connor Faith 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
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 Books Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no… — Flannery O'Connor Atheism Copy Share Image
“Francis Marion Tarwater’s uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his… — Flannery O'Connor Francis Marion 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
“Nothing outside you can give you anyplace. You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and… — Flannery O'Connor Redemption Copy Share Image
