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Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of "Wise Blood" that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote "Perhaps I am prematurely arrogant ...
— Flannery O'Connor
Jincy Willett, Sam Lipsyte, Flannery O'Connor, and George Saunders. Oh, and I love Paul Rudnick in The New Yorker.
— Pamela Paul
Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.
— Flannery O'Connor
Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.
— Phil Klay
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
I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.
— Flannery O'Connor
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
— Frances Mayes
In the name of social order, liberal thought, and sometimes even Christianity, the novelist is asked to be the handmaid of his age.
— Flannery O'Connor
I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.
— David Almond
He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.
— Flannery O'Connor
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
— Ben Marcus
I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.
— Sara Zarr
As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "Religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it's a cross."13
— Terryl L. Givens
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
— Dean Koontz
Flannery O'Connor once told a young friend to "push as hard as the age that pushes against you.
— Tish Harrison Warren
Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
— Floyd Skloot