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All Quotes by author - Flannery O'Connor
" 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. "
Support
People
Grace
" 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. "
Best
Despair
Worst
" Conviction without experience makes for harshness. "
Makes
Conviction
Experience
" Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. "
Opinion
Enough
Go
" Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. "
Someone
Believe
Be True
" I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. "
Writer
Writing
I Am
" I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. "
Controversial
Will
Afraid
" I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside. "
God
Myself
Me
" I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. "
Always
Tongue
Funny
" I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again. "
Lady
Doing
I Am
" I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. "
People
Know
Down
" 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. "
Only
Your
Truth
" It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. "
Your
Young
Than
" It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. "
Rich
More
Poor
" 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. "
Losing
Great
Will
" The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. "
Both
Truth
Matter
" There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. "
Teacher
Been
Good
" The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. "
Those
Proceed
Weaknesses
" The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. "
Stomach
Ability
Change
" The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. "
Cannot
Live
He
" The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. "
Writer
Find
Meet
" The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. "
Attention
Does
Never
" To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. "
View
Too Much
Bitterness
" 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. "
Business
Book
Think
" When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. "
Rome
Done
You
" Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. "
Writing
Hair
Out
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