All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor
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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.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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