Southern-literature Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“Flannery O’Connor—it’s right, but it ain’t right enough.”

— Scot McKnight

“I always thought the allusive “O” that girls always talked about was an urban legend, but Connor is quickly turning me into a believer.”

— Devon Herrera

“I flipped to the author’s photo in the Library of America edition of O’Connor’s collected works, and forked it over. Solitary examined the photo.…

— Avi Steinberg

“The fool spoke precisely as he wrote, in convoluted paragraphs that any worthwhile editor would want to set on fire.”

— Eliot Grayson

I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.

— Sara Zarr

“By means of intense personal discipline Flannery O’Connor was able to rise above a debilitating disease to become one of the finest fiction writers…

— Richard J. Foster

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

— Guy Kawasaki

“Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not…

— John Kennedy Toole

“I could never understand how he always seemed so sure of himself. But now I did. It was because Connor really did know what…

— Siobhan Vivian

“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't…

— Jane Pek

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“For it was intelligence that was the thin line between endearing rapscallion and idiot bastard. - Éibhear the Contemptible”

— G.A. Aiken