Flannery O'Connor's Quotes

'I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.'

'I write to discover what I know.'

'Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.'

'Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to uderstand it.'  

'For me it is the virgin birth, the incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphassis the church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.'    by Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor(1925 ~ 1964)

   I'm supposed to put some comments on this one. But I'd rather be silent than say something about how I think of. Sometimes, it works, definitely, except for repeating the sentence once again: 'I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.'