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Famous Flannery O'Connor Quotes
“Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.”
“I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.”
“Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!”
“Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.”
“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”
“It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.”
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”
“I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.”
“When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.”
“I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.”
“The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.”
“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”
“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.”
“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”
“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”
“It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.”