Flannery O'Connor

(12 votes)   Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(9 votes)   To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

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(24 votes)   There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however nanve that may have been, it was a good deal less nanve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

Flannery O'Connor
1925-1964, American Author

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(14 votes)   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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(13 votes)   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.

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(13 votes)   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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(12 votes)   Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

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(11 votes)   It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

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(11 votes)   When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

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(10 votes)   Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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(10 votes)   The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

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(10 votes)   The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

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(9 votes)   I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

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(9 votes)   I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

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