It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.” — Flannery O'Connor Creativity Copy Share Image
“The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.” — Flannery O'Connor Grandmother Copy Share Image
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. — Flannery O'Connor Concern Copy Share Image
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor Discipline 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
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. — Flannery O'Connor Burdened Copy Share Image
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. — Flannery O'Connor Absence Copy Share Image
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really… — Flannery O'Connor Behavior Copy Share Image
I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no… — Flannery O'Connor Atheism 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
“I hope you understand that it is not the tooth of the saber-toothed tiger I want, it is the tiger . I… — Flannery O'Connor Humor Copy Share Image
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“no one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist. The devil is the greatest… — Flannery O'Connor Atheist Copy Share Image
“The houses were squat and almost identical and each one had a square of grass in front of it like a dog… — Flannery O'Connor Home Copy Share Image
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face… — Flannery O'Connor Character Copy Share Image
Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have… — Flannery O'Connor Communication Copy Share Image
...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we… — Flannery O'Connor Believe 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
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
“Listen here, Mr. Shiftlet," she said, sliding forward in her chair, "you'd be getting a permanent house and a deep well and… — Flannery O'Connor Poor Disabled Copy Share Image
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of… — Flannery O'Connor Assuming Copy Share Image
[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of… — Flannery O'Connor Coins 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 Bear Copy Share Image
It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in… — Flannery O'Connor Church Copy Share Image
The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. — Flannery O'Connor Cutting Copy Share Image
I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. — Flannery O'Connor Christ Copy Share Image
“Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked.” — Flannery O'Connor Grandfather Copy Share Image
“Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.” — Flannery O'Connor Dear god Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor 1956 Copy Share Image
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. — Flannery O'Connor Ability Copy Share Image
“If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.” — Flannery O'Connor Religion Copy Share Image
“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.” — Flannery O'Connor Fools Copy Share Image
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it. — Flannery O'Connor Getting over it 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'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays… — Flannery O'Connor Blind Copy Share Image
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity. — Flannery O'Connor Charity Copy Share Image
Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow. — Flannery O'Connor Church Copy Share Image
![“Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ee1/flannery-o-connor-639_communication_once-the-process-of-conversion-is-begun_2834541.jpg)
![“[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b7c/flannery-o-connor-639_coins_simone-weil-s-life-is-almost-a-perfect-b_165781.jpg)
