All my stories are about the action of grace on a …– Flannery O’Connor
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
The truth does not change according to our ability …– Flannery O’Connor
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
I do not know You, God…– Flannery O’Connor
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the …– Flannery O’Connor
Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.
The basis of art is truth…– Flannery O’Connor
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
At its best our age is an age of searchers and …– Flannery O’Connor
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
The writer should never be ashamed of staring…– Flannery O’Connor
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other …– Flannery O’Connor
I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.