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Flannery OConnor Quotes about Life

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor
Funny, Life, Change
Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.100, Macmillan

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

Flannery O'Connor
Life, Happiness, Success

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

Flannery O'Connor
Life, Fall, Writing

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

Flannery O'Connor
Life, Views, Too Much

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

Flannery O'Connor
Life, Spiritual, Lost
Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.151, Macmillan

She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

Flannery O'Connor
Life, Good Woman, Misfits

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Flannery O'Connor
Life, Success, Writing

Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.

Flannery O'Connor
Life, Strong, Imagination

I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.

Flannery O'Connor
Life, Southern, Doubt
Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.23, Macmillan

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