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Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: March 25, 1925 Date of Death: August 3, 1964 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Flannery O'Connor Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Gertrude Stein Henry Miller Helen Keller Edwin Louis Cole F. Scott Fitzgerald Susan Sontag |
All 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'Connor At 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'Connor Conviction without experience makes for harshness. Flannery O'Connor Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle 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'Connor Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. Flannery O'Connor I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. Flannery O'Connor I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. Flannery O'Connor I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. Flannery O'Connor I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Flannery O'Connor 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'Connor It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. Flannery O'Connor It 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'Connor Manners 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'Connor The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. Flannery O'Connor The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. Flannery O'Connor The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O'Connor The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. Flannery O'Connor The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. Flannery O'Connor The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. Flannery O'Connor There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. Flannery O'Connor When 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'Connor When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. Flannery O'Connor Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. Flannery O'Connor |
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