American Quote by Scott Derrickson

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

— David Almond

I'd love to meet Flannery O'Connor. I think I'd be content to hear her speak on any subject. What forces shaped her. What nebula…

— Karen Russell

Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I…

— Karin Slaughter

I always loved Flannery O'Conner, and how she's not trying to create sympathetic characters.

— Lee Isaac Chung

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

— Jeff Feuerzeig

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

— Kiran Desai

Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor,…

— Ron Rash

I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.

— Donald Ray Pollock

“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

I took a fiction-writing workshop my sophomore year at Northwestern, and I hadn't yet read Junot Diaz or George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor. There was…

— Karen Russell

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation.…

— Garance Dore

The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'

— Karin Slaughter