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 on age
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor on best
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. Flannery O'Connor on business
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O'Connor on change
Conviction without experience makes for harshness. Flannery O'Connor on experience
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. Flannery O'Connor on experience
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. Flannery O'Connor on faith
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor on good
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. Flannery O'Connor on life
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor on teacher
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor on teacher
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 on truth
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O'Connor on truth