I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his life.” — Flannery O'Connor Childhood Copy Share Image
If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle. — Flannery O'Connor Meaning Copy Share Image
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
“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
As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the… — Flannery O'Connor 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
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You… — Flannery O'Connor Abundance 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
“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 only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we… — Flannery O'Connor 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
When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be… — Flannery O'Connor Books 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
The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the… — Flannery O'Connor Catholic Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will… — Flannery O'Connor Afterlife Copy Share Image
“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
“As was usual with him, he began with the least important thing and worked around and in toward the center where the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“His black hat sat on his head with a careful, placed expression and his face had a fragile look as if it… — Flannery O'Connor Mind Copy Share Image
“The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do… — Flannery O'Connor Always wrong Copy Share Image
“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that… — Flannery O'Connor Believer Copy Share Image
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never… — Flannery O'Connor Attention Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the… — Flannery O'Connor 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
The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was… — Flannery O'Connor Bailey Copy Share Image
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object… — Flannery O'Connor Abstract Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with… — Flannery O'Connor 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/i/ee1/flannery-o-connor-639_communication_once-the-process-of-conversion-is-begun_2834541.png)
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