One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.
Flannery O'ConnorYou ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.
Flannery O'ConnorThose who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
Flannery O'ConnorYou can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.
Flannery O'ConnorSickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.
Flannery O'Connor