Quotes by : Flannery O'Connor

He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo....

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

He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it....

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive....

We live in an unbelieving age but one which is markedly and lopsidedly spiritual. There is one type of....

It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do....

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our....

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace....

He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even....

The child came to a stop beside her mother and stared up at her face as if she had never seen it before.....