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Flannery O'Connor quotes

American Author March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964

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It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church. Flannery O'Connor
As was usual with him, he began with the least important thing and worked around and in toward the center where the meaning was. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and..."
Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God! Flannery O'Connor
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old..."
The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I..."
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. 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. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the..."
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit..."
The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art. Flannery O'Connor
[Writing about her address to a ladies club]: The heart of my message to them was that they would all fry in Hell if they didn't quit reading trash. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience."
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. Flannery O'Connor
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world. Flannery O'Connor
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him. Flannery O'Connor
Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them."
Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them. Flannery O'Connor

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