Flannery OConnor Quotes about Literature

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

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

Flannery O'Connor

Faith, Believe, Literature

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

Flannery O'Connor

Rome, Done, Literature

Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.220, Macmillan

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

Flannery O'Connor

Irritation, Literature, Emotion

Flannery O'Connor (2012). “Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons”, p.112, Fantagraphics Books

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

Truth, Atheism, Literature

1952 HazelMotes. Wise Blood, ch.10.

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.

Flannery O'Connor

Despair, Age, Literature

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.159, Macmillan

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

Flannery O'Connor

Writing, Literature, Able

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.27, Macmillan

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

Flannery O'Connor

Doe, Attention, Literature

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.84, Macmillan

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

Flannery O'Connor

Novelists, Literature, Losing

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.29, Macmillan