Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

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