“...sitting with him was like sitting by yourself; he didn't talk except when it suited him. You asked him a question in… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar… — Flannery O'Connor Blessed sacrament Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others… — Flannery O'Connor Emotion Copy Share Image
The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Education 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
There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in classes where students criticize each other’s manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery,… — Flannery O'Connor Criticism Copy Share Image
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide… — Flannery O'Connor Business Copy Share Image
“Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he… — Flannery O'Connor Art 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from… — Flannery O'Connor Christianity Copy Share Image
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted… — Flannery O'Connor Feelings Copy Share Image
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose… — Flannery O'Connor Gift Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Criticism Copy Share Image
I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not,… — Flannery O'Connor Abortion Copy Share Image
“Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been… — Flannery O'Connor Freedom 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
“She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it… — Flannery O'Connor Martyrdom Copy Share Image
Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense… — Flannery O'Connor Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to… — Flannery O'Connor Catholicism Copy Share Image
“I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before… — Flannery O'Connor Aquinas Copy Share Image
“He groaned to see that she was off on that topic. She rolled into it every few days like a train on… — Flannery O'Connor Fitness Copy Share Image
![“[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet…” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/569/flannery-o-connor-639_catholicism_w-hat-one-has-as-a-born-catholic-is-some_2951481.jpg)
