“I come a long way since I would believe anything. I come halfway around the world.” — Flannery O'Connor Around the world Copy Share Image
You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots. — Flannery O'Connor Doctor 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
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it. — Flannery O'Connor 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
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
“If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.” — Flannery O'Connor Religion 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The straightforward manner is seldom equal to the complications of the good subject. There may never be anything new to say, but… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's… — Flannery O'Connor 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
Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one… — Flannery O'Connor Being real Copy Share Image
Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him. — Flannery O'Connor Depressed 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
“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
Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow. — Flannery O'Connor Church Copy Share Image
