Flannery O'Connor Quote

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it.... If you manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first.


Letter to Father John McCown [May 9,1956]


The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it.... If you manage to use it successfully for social,...

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it.... If you manage to use it successfully for social,...

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it.... If you manage to use it successfully for social,...

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it.... If you manage to use it successfully for social,...