We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we… — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too… — Flannery O'Connor Chickens Copy Share Image
“The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic. — Flannery O'Connor Dramatic Copy Share Image
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. — Flannery O'Connor Good teacher Copy Share Image
Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly… — Flannery O'Connor Admirer Copy Share Image
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive,… — Flannery O'Connor Book Copy Share Image
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor Deaf Copy Share Image
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too… — Flannery O'Connor Bad taste Copy Share Image
“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.… — Flannery O'Connor Books 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
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having… — Flannery O'Connor Certain 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
“Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his life.” — Flannery O'Connor Childhood Copy Share Image
“She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her… — Flannery O'Connor Good woman Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do… — Flannery O'Connor Always wrong Copy Share Image
“Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish eating it nor… — Flannery O'Connor Character 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
“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable… — Flannery O'Connor Human nature 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 Right now Copy Share Image
“From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from… — Flannery O'Connor Ages Copy Share Image
