Quote by Flannery O'Connor Download Open image ““I believe firmly in mystery and manners.”” — Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Manners, you see, come down to a single principle: talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“It's a sorry little fact that we are often as mysterious to ourselves as we are to others.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I do believe in the mysteries of things, about myself and the things I see. I enjoy being puzzled and arriving at my own… — Barney Hoskyns Copy Share Image
“The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“I don't have great mysteries to tell,all I have is a simple path that I try to follow in a dignified manner.” — Kabir Shah Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth, I rather enjoy the mystery. I will let it remain impenetrable for the time being.” — Damian Murphy Copy Share Image
“I may not know what my heart truly holds, but who does? I think we're all mysteries, even to ourselves.” — Carolyn Ives Gilman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
