Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
Flannery O'Connor

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery O'Connor

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
Flannery O'Connor

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'Connor

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.
Flannery O'Connor

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor

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'Connor