Top 24 Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

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.

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

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

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

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

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.

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