All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
- There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Been
- The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. Basic
- There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of… Anything New
- The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. Critics
- You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd. Funny
- I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people… Believe
- I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,… Aloneness
- Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three… Coming
- The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and… Abstractions
- I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work… Believe
- The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. Aware
- I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story.… All
- When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others,… Belongs
- The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it… Better
- As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes… Blood
- When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call… All
- You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself. Care
- Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it… Account
- 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 anything you can… Always Wrong
- It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. Abstract
- I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something,… Few
- To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. Almost Blind
- I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist. Atheist
- If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. Believe
- Christianity is a strangely cheery religion. Cheery