Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.


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

Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something...

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something...

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something...

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something...