3 Quotes – Flannery O’Connor

Read Flannery O’Connor’s quotes! I love her quotes and am inspired by them. I’m sure they will inspire you, as well.

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Flannery O’Connor, American writer
(born: Mary Flannery O’Connor)

born:
March 25, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia, USA

died:
August 3, 1964, in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, USA

known for (among others):
Wise Blood, The Violent Bear it Away: short story collections

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

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