Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988) - ISBN: 9781466829015