Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. — Flannery O'Connor Georgia Copy Share Image
“Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?” — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
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
“Sin is a great thing as long as it's recognized. It leads a good many people to God who wouldn't get there… — Flannery O'Connor Good Copy Share Image
Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe. — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. — Flannery O'Connor Book Copy Share Image
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
...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it. — Flannery O'Connor Cherish Copy Share Image
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to… — Flannery O'Connor Asking Copy Share Image
Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more… — Flannery O'Connor Abandonment Copy Share Image
“...they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane… — Flannery O'Connor Sane Copy Share Image
“I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stay's… — Flannery O'Connor Blood of jesus 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
I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—for Scotch oatmeal… — Flannery O'Connor Artificial Copy Share Image
“With a volley of blasts it emerged from the shed, moving in a fierce and stately way. Mr. Shiftlet was in the… — Flannery O'Connor Emerged Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Action Copy Share Image
Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when… — Flannery O'Connor Christian Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the… — Flannery O'Connor Accounts Copy Share Image
“The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Action Copy Share Image
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
“He said he had only a few days ago believed in blasphemy as the way to salvation, but that you couldn't even… — Flannery O'Connor Believed Blasphemy Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take… — Flannery O'Connor Books 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 Car Went Copy Share Image
“About hope, I am somewhat at a loss. It is so easy to say I hope to—the tongue slides over it. I… — Flannery O'Connor Dear god Copy Share Image
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and… — Flannery O'Connor Compassion Copy Share Image
“Unless we are willing to accept our artists as they are, the answer to the question, "Who speaks for America today?" will… — Flannery O'Connor America today Copy Share Image
“The road looked as if no one had traveled on it in months. "It's not much farther," the grandmother said and just… — Flannery O'Connor Accident Copy Share Image
“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any… — Flannery O'Connor Human nature Copy Share Image
