Quotes by : Flannery O'Connor

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken....

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as....

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense....

If the writer believes that our life is and will remain essentially mysterious, if he looks upon us as....

I still suspect that most people start out with some kind of ability to tell a story but that it gets....

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty,....

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.....

He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal....