It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he… — Flannery O'Connor Attachment Copy Share Image
“I have one of those food-chopper brains that nothing comes out of the way it went in.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality… — Flannery O'Connor Escape from reality Copy Share Image
I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am… — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for… — Flannery O'Connor Chickens Copy Share Image
“Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him… — Flannery O'Connor 1956 Copy Share Image
“He saw that for the rest of his days, frail, racked, but enduring, he would live in the face of a purifying… — Flannery O'Connor Holy ghost Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. — Flannery O'Connor People Copy Share Image
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. — Flannery O'Connor Hardest Copy Share Image
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. — Flannery O'Connor I can 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 writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. — Flannery O'Connor Crossroads Copy Share Image
If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. — Flannery O'Connor Believe 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 boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.” — Flannery O'Connor Education Copy Share Image
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything… — Flannery O'Connor Balance 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
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just… — Flannery O'Connor Crafts 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
“Anyone who has lived to the age of eighteen has enough stories to last a lifetime.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was… — Flannery O'Connor Bears Copy Share Image
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the… — Flannery O'Connor Abstract 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
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
