“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 Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor Conscience Copy Share Image
If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him. — Flannery O'Connor Change Copy Share Image
The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly… — Flannery O'Connor Eye Copy Share Image
“Listen, lady," he said in a high voice, "if I had of been there I would of known and I wouldn't be… — Flannery O'Connor Three times Copy Share Image
“He said when he went to sell a man a flue, he asked first about that man's wife's health and how his… — Flannery O'Connor Computers Copy Share Image
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of… — Flannery O'Connor Democracy Copy Share Image
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from… — Flannery O'Connor Conditions 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
“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.” — Flannery O'Connor Self knowledge Copy Share Image
I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard… — Flannery O'Connor Amused Copy Share Image
“He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES.… — Flannery O'Connor 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
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. — Flannery O'Connor Credit Copy Share Image
You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own. — Flannery O'Connor Christ Copy Share Image
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical.… — Flannery O'Connor Birth Copy Share Image
Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to… — Flannery O'Connor Dark Copy Share Image
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work… — Flannery O'Connor Every step Copy Share Image
“Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense… — Flannery O'Connor Writing Copy Share Image
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has… — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
“Man's desire for God is bedded in his unconscious & seeks to satisfy itself in physical possession of another human. This necessarily… — Flannery O'Connor Desire Copy Share Image
