Flannery O'Connor

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

— Flannery O'Connor

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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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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

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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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