Criticism Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the…

— Flannery O'Connor

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise…

— Flannery O'Connor

“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

— Flannery O'Connor

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

— Flannery O'Connor

“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless…

— Flannery O'Connor

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories…

— Flannery O'Connor

“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.”

— Flannery O'Connor

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying…

— Flannery O'Connor