Quotes by O'Connor, Flannery

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind wi >>

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poo >>

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the m >>

Quotations about Literature

The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, >>

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive >>

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. >>

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naïve that may have been, it was a good deal less naïve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

O'Connor, Flannery