Quotes About Flannery

Our global structuring activities and restructuring activities really don't impact India.

For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.

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.

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

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

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.

'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.