The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. Flannery O'Connor More Quotes by Flannery O'Connor More Quotes From Flannery O'Connor The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. Flannery O'Connor hilarious cutting tree Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. Flannery O'Connor fruit jars names Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God. Flannery O'Connor limits god way A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. Flannery O'Connor resisting wells devil I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see. Flannery O'Connor crafts believe people One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for. Flannery O'Connor christian writing believe A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us. Flannery O'Connor real responsibility use The life you save may very well be your own. Flannery O'Connor wells may The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. Flannery O'Connor despair kind way It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. Flannery O'Connor failure novelists success I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic. Flannery O'Connor handy following advice When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God. Flannery O'Connor real sight men There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy. Flannery O'Connor yards biographies house ...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it. Flannery O'Connor suffering struggle believe Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way. Flannery O'Connor smart criticism book It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity. Flannery O'Connor charity maturity southern There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. Flannery O'Connor average mean book ... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about. Flannery O'Connor religious humble writing 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 women education teacher When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost. Flannery O'Connor spiritual lost life
