More quotes by Flannery O'Connor

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."
"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity."
"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."