Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connorwas 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. Her posthumously-compiled Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 March 1925
CitySavannah, GA
CountryUnited States of America
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth
You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.
The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.
You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.
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.
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.