Flannery O'connor, Mystery And Manners: Occasional Prose

Quotes

• “I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory larg...”
• “Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritate...”
• “There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence...”
• “Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much ...”
• “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to u...”
• “When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spir...”
• “Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for...”
• “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”