Quotes from Flannery O' Connor

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

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.

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