Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Flannery O'Connor — American Author born on March 25, 1925, died on August 03, 1964

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, she wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. Her writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics... (wikipedia)

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

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

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.

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

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