“ My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be. Flannery O'Connor
“ I still suspect that most people start out with some kind of ability to tell a story but that it gets lost along the way. Of course, the ability to create life with words is essentially a gift. If you… Flannery O'Connor
“ The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. Flannery O'Connor
“ The fiction writer is an observer, first, last, and always, but he cannot be an adequate observer unless he is free from uncertainty about what he sees. Those who have no absolute values cannot let th… Flannery O'Connor
“ I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. Flannery O'Connor
“ The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely… Flannery O'Connor
“ Unfortunately, to try to disconnect faith from vision is to do violence to the whole personality, and the whole personality participates in the act of writing. The tensions of being a Catholic novelis… Flannery O'Connor
“ I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart… Flannery O'Connor
“ For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonish… Flannery O'Connor
“ I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it. Flannery O'Connor
“ The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity... Flannery O'Connor
“ 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. Flannery O'Connor
“ One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation;… Flannery O'Connor
“ Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom. Flannery O'Connor
“ In the last twenty years the colleges have been emphasizing creative writing to such an extent that you almost feel that any idiot with a nickel's worth of talent can emerge from a writing class able… Flannery O'Connor
“ The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive... Flannery O'Connor
“ She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true. Flannery O'Connor
“ The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them. Flannery O'Connor
“ Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. Flannery O'Connor
