The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
More Quotes from Flannery OConnor:
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.Flannery OConnor
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery OConnor
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
Flannery OConnor
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery OConnor
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery OConnor
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle 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.
Flannery OConnor
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The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.
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