The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. Flannery O'Connor More Quotes by Flannery O'Connor More Quotes From Flannery O'Connor When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic. Flannery O'Connor her-eyeseyestories Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you. Flannery O'Connor dustwritingjobs People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. Flannery O'Connor novelwritingpeople It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries. Flannery O'Connor realwatchespeople He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened. Flannery O'Connor personalitywaitingmen Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them. Flannery O'Connor stayinglimitationart 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 irritationemotionliterature I write to discover what I know. Flannery O'Connor knowswriting She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything. Flannery O'Connor gonefatherrooms The meaning of the story is the story. Flannery O'Connor stories Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can. Flannery O'Connor possibility Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. Flannery O'Connor I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside. Flannery O'Connor i-ammyselfmegod 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. Flannery O'Connor i-amladythinkknow
