Quotes About O'Connor

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Word is you heard the Windigo too." I did. The difference is I'm ready for the son of a bitch." --Cork O'Connor

When that didn't work, Lucette bribed her with some candy and the girl un-bewitched the soccer ball.

Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven.

In short, I am amenable to criticism, but only within the sphere of what I am trying to do; I will not pretend to do otherwise.

For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.

To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.

He was bald-headed except for a little fringe of rust-colored hair and his face was nearly the same color as the unpaved roads and washed like them with ruts and gullys.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

I glanced at the lunch boxes under the desks around me and wondered if there were any squirrel sandwiches in them.

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

Green eyes like his mother's. Like beautiful marble. You could catch the fever from somebody's eyes.

I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse Stewart. They became an inspiration for how I wanted my writing voice to be.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

I think most people didn't want to do court duty.

The 'Sodajerker' podcast is the work of Liverpool songwriting duo Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor.

'Orthodoxy' is the seminal book of ideas in my life. That book I've read more than any other book. It's the spinal column that leads up to my brain and informs the way I think. Flannery O'Connor is my favorite American writer.

I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.

And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted it is being formed.