The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. Flannery O'Connor Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I’m afraid it will not be controversial. Flannery O'Connor Read Quote
I don’t have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again. Flannery O'Connor Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor Read Quote
