June Star said her hair was naturally curly.
Flannery O'ConnorWriting a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
Flannery O'ConnorTag: reality writing creative-process novels escape
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Flannery O'ConnorYou shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
Flannery O'ConnorTag: truth
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
Flannery O'ConnorI have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
Flannery O'ConnorOur age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.
Flannery O'ConnorTag: writing grace violence crudeness perspicacity
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
Flannery O'ConnorTag: humor education southern georgia
Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
Flannery O'ConnorTag: southern-writers
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