Famous Quotes / Flannery O'Connor
15 Quotations by Flannery O'Connor
- 1. All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, b ...
- 2. Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.
- 3. Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't ...
- 4. I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
- 5. I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
- 6. If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yoursel ...
- 7. It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
- 8. It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes abo ...
- 9. Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better ...
- 10. The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
- 11. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.
- 12. There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, a ...
- 13. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- 14. To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitter ...
- 15. When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few ...