The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinne... - Flannery O'Connor

"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."

"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity."

"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."

"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."

"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."