People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.” — Flannery O'Connor Atheist Copy Share Image
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you… — Flannery O'Connor Generation Copy Share Image
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. — Flannery O'Connor Childhood 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 Copy Share Image
In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough. — Flannery O'Connor College Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lived to the age of eighteen has enough stories to last a lifetime.” — Flannery O'Connor Lifetime Copy Share Image
“The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust.” — Flannery O'Connor Hope Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Chance Copy Share Image
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live, and so far… — Flannery O'Connor Writer Copy Share Image
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most… — Flannery O'Connor Action Copy Share Image
“Thomas had inherited his father’s reason without his ruthlessness and his mother’s love of good without her tendency to pursue it. His… — Flannery O'Connor Love 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
“[Writing about her address to a ladies club]: The heart of my message to them was that they would all fry in… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“She could not make up her mind what would be inside his head and what out. She thought of her own head… — Flannery O'Connor Heart Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“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 Idiot Copy Share Image
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's… — Flannery O'Connor Christ Copy Share Image
“Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [...] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like… — Flannery O'Connor Disciple Copy Share Image
The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists… — Flannery O'Connor 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
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
“Mr. Head stood very still and felt the action of mercy touch him again but this time he knew that there were… — Flannery O'Connor Compassion 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 Redemption 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 Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no… — Flannery O'Connor Atheism Copy Share Image
“Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations. That belief in Christ is to… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe. I know… — Flannery O'Connor Faith Copy Share Image
“ Wise Blood has reached the age of ten and is still alive. My critical powers are just sufficient to determine this,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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