I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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'ConnorNothing needs to happen to a writerโs life after they are 20. By then theyโve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
Flannery O'ConnorI come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.
Flannery O'ConnorThe writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Flannery O'ConnorI am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
Flannery O'Connor