All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
- 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
- Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to… Abstract
- Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. Absence
- One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality… Audience
- Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it. Hell
- Nobody with a good car needs to be justified. Car
- There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting… Any
- It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells… Believe
- In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where… Appropriate
- Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding Crowding
- There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in… Believe
- It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth Artist
- Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can. All
- The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery;… All
- Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life. Creative
- Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that… Admirer