Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Southern, Childhood, Lasts

• Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Teacher, Teaching, Childhood

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.84, Macmillan

• The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Childhood, Littles, Information

  Flannery O'Connor (2014). “Mystery and Manners”, p.49, Faber & Faber

• We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Taken, College, Childhood

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.84, Macmillan

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