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I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing


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FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write to discover what I know.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu...
KERRIE O'CONNOR Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Grace changes us and change is painful".
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One w...
JOSEPH O'CONNOR The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of compete...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recolle...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR [W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am onl...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR It is beyond logic that we see the light.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will ...
SINEAD O'CONNOR I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would hav...
BARBARA O'CONNOR When it comes to happiness, why would anyone want to delay it?
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR