...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
Flannery O'ConnorDoes one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.
Flannery O'ConnorI am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.
Flannery O'ConnorPeople without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'Connor