The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.


Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969) - ISBN: 9781466829046

Flannery O'Connor Quotes

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look....

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look....

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look....

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look....