Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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

• I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Eye, Blessing, I Can

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.57, Macmillan

• Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Eye, Grace, Feelings

  Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.58, Rutgers University Press

• When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Eye, Stories, Her Eyes

  Flannery O'Connor (2016). “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, p.6, Faber & Faber

• I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Eye, Writing, Blessing

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.16, Macmillan

• 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

• The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Truth, Eye, Novelists

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.177, Macmillan

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