Flannery O’Connor

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August 11, 2020

Name: Flannery O'Connor
Born: 03/25/1925
Died: 08/03/1964 (39 years old)
Occupation: Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Mary Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925? August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.

Birth Name: Mary Flannery O’Connor

Genre: Southern Gothic

Birth Place: Savannah, Georgia, US

Death Place: Milledgeville, Georgia, US

Source: Wikipedia

Flannery O’Connor quotes :

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor