Flannery O’Connor: Quotes about people

Flannery O’Connor was American novelist, short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Flannery O’Connor: 164 quotes22 likes

“I love a lot of people, understand none of them…”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”

Flannery O’Connor

“All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

“I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.”

Flannery O’Connor

“Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

“I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.”

Flannery O’Connor

“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor