All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
- 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
- The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind… All
- There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners… Abundance
- Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are Foggiest
- When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will… Arch
- I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent… Able
- 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
- Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion… Attached
- I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident… Adept
- It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity. Charity
- If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him. Change