All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
- Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you… From
- She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit… Been
- There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a… Anyone
- The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. Cut
- He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my… Almost Nothing
- It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes. Bleed
- If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or… Breath
- Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it… Called
- Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. Anybody
- When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually… Apt
- Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe. Belief
- The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all… All
- I love a lot of people, understand none of them... Funny
- I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it.… Along
- Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply… Always Irritated
- Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. Dumping
- Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for… Age
- I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by… Action
- We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see… Age
- There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be… Act