Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connorwas an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, she wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. Her writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. Her posthumously-compiled Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 March 1925
CitySavannah, GA
CountryUnited States of America
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
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.
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.
Grace changes us and change is painful".
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery...
If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.
I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
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.