Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Smart, Book, Criticism

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.407, Macmillan

• There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Book, Mean, Average

  1960 'Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction'. Paper read at Wesleyan College, Fall.

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

  Flannery O'Connor

  Funny, Witty, Teacher

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

• 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 O'Connor

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.143, Macmillan

• I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Book, Controversial, Not Afraid

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.358, Macmillan

• Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.” My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you’re not a lady? she says.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Mother, Book, Ifs And

• The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Mother, Book, Tired

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Book, Two, Fifty

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