More quotes by Flannery O'Connor

"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."
"You know,"Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!"
"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."