Quotes by : Flannery O'Connor

It is generally supposed, and not least by Catholics, that the Catholic who writes fiction is out to....

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at....

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

The Christian writer will feel that in the greatest depth of vision, moral judgment will be implicit,....

To the person who believes this- as the western world did up until a few centuries ago- this physical,....

Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing....

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute....

The sorry religious novel comes about when the writer supposes that because of his belief, he is somehow....