“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.”
Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor
@JLLiedl I have to go to a Cubs game for my husband’s birthday celebration this summer at Wrigley. This confirms my decision to wear a Packers t-shirt to the game. #GoPackGo
"When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor
“What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the Cross.”
Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor
"There won't be any biographies of me because lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor
Celebrate Flannery's birthday by watching our film for free on the PBS app. "Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O'Connor." #FlanneryOConnor https://t.co/x6mFZsdVju
"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor
“I say many many too many uncharitable things about people everyday. I say them because they make me look clever. Please help me to realize practically how cheap this is." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor#Lent2026
“The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor