Flannery O'Connor Quotes

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

It’s like building a nest. First she thinks about it, then she begins to gather the materials, then she begins to put it together.

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now.

While the South is hardly Christ-centred, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.