I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.


The Complete Stories (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971) - ISBN: 9781466829022

Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and...

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and...

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and...

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and...