Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Character, Ideas

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.363, Macmillan

• I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Character, Eye, Writing

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.89, Macmillan

• If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Character, Possibility

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.199, Macmillan

• 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.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Character, Thinking, People

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.275, Macmillan

• In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Real, Character, Personality

• Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Character, Matter, Behavior

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.174, Macmillan

• I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Character, People

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.66, Macmillan

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