I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.


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

Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something...

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something...

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something...

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something...