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Flannery O'Connor

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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.


— Flannery O'Connor


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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.


— Flannery O'Connor


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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


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About Flannery O'Connor






Did you know about Flannery O'Connor?

Workshop director Paul Engle was the first to read and comment on the initial drafts of what would become Wise Blood. O'Connor wrote: "Grace changes us and change is painful. She entered Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College & State University) in an accelerated three-year program and graduated in June 1945 with a Social Sciences degree.

S. Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25 1925 – August 3 1964) was an American writer and essayist. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters.

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