flannery ooconnor
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
Flannery O'ConnorThere's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'ConnorI am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery O'ConnorAll my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Flannery O'ConnorEverywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'ConnorThe truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'ConnorOur most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
Robert MorganWhen a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'ConnorWhen in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
Flannery O'ConnorIt is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Flannery O'ConnorManners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Flannery O'ConnorThe writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flannery O'ConnorAt its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O'ConnorIt seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'ConnorThe writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Flannery O'ConnorThe basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'ConnorWriting a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor