I write to discover what I know. Author: Flannery O'Connor Copy Quote More from Flannery O'Connor “The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.” “Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.” “The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks…” “If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”