Flannery OConnor Quotes about Character

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In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

Flannery O'Connor

Real, Character, Personality

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

Flannery O'Connor

Writing, Character, Ideas

Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.363, Macmillan

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

Character, Thinking, People

Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.275, Macmillan

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

Flannery O'Connor

Character, Matter, Behavior

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.174, Macmillan

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.

Flannery O'Connor

Writing, Character, People

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.66, Macmillan

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.

Flannery O'Connor

Character, Eye, Writing

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.89, Macmillan