Famous Flannery OConnor Quotes

  • Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete. – Flannery OConnor

    Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.– Flannery OConnor

  • You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. – Flannery OConnor

    You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.– Flannery OConnor

  • The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. – Flannery OConnor

    The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.– Flannery OConnor

  • He had measured five feet four inches of pure game????. – Flannery OConnor

    He had measured five feet four inches of pure game????.– Flannery OConnor

  • Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. – Flannery OConnor

    Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.– Flannery OConnor

  • Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people’s in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack. – Flannery OConnor

    Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people’s in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.– Flannery OConnor

  • The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don’t hold nothing back. – Flannery OConnor

    The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don’t hold nothing back.– Flannery OConnor

  • His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it. – Flannery OConnor

    His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.– Flannery OConnor

  • Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it – Flannery OConnor

    Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it– Flannery OConnor

  • The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem. – Flannery OConnor

    The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.– Flannery OConnor