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 am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic. — Flannery O'Connor Advice Copy Share Image
“His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.” — Flannery O'Connor Beautiful Copy Share Image
If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth. — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. — Flannery O'Connor Devil 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 Copy Share Image
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through… — Flannery O'Connor Abstraction 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
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the… — Flannery O'Connor Fiction Copy Share Image
“Did you see the picture of Roy Rogers's horse attending a church service in Pasadena? I forgot whether his name was Tex… — Flannery O'Connor Church service Copy Share Image
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) — Flannery O'Connor August Copy Share Image
“The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, “My daughter… — Flannery O'Connor Children Copy Share Image
I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the… — Flannery O'Connor Eighth grade Copy Share Image
“Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted… — Flannery O'Connor Happiness Copy Share Image
“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image… — Flannery O'Connor Backwoods Copy Share Image
I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady,… — Flannery O'Connor Book Copy Share Image
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of "Wise Blood" that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote "Perhaps I… — Flannery O'Connor Arrogance Copy Share Image
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work… — Flannery O'Connor 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 Copy Share Image
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Two people can remain "in love"-- a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism--only if their common desire for each other unites… — Flannery O'Connor Love Copy Share Image
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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