522 Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.