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

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

"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."

"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."

"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."