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 Read Quote
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. Flannery O'Connor Read Quote
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. Flannery O'Connor Read Quote
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. Flannery O'Connor Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. Flannery O'Connor Read Quote
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Flannery O'Connor Read Quote
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside. Flannery O'Connor Read Quote
