Mary Flannery O'Connor
1925 - 1964
American novelist, short-story writer
and essayist.
‘The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode’
‘The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it’
‘I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best’.
‘I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial’
‘The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location’
‘The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention’
‘To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness’
‘Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay’
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