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Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Flannery Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Flannery Quotes

Scott Derrickson

Flannery O’Connor is my creative hero. I think she’s the greatest American writer. Her book, ‘Mystery and Manners,’ is my creative bible.

– Scott Derrickson

Sara Zarr

I don’t want to pretend like I’m some intellectual person who understands Flannery O’Connor.

– Sara Zarr

Phil Klay

Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O’Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.

– Phil Klay

Padgett Powell

All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O’Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don’t have that kind of wit and genius. We don’t do that. We sit down and have some accidents.

– Padgett Powell

Mat Kearney

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.

– Mat Kearney

Lee Isaac Chung

I always loved Flannery O’Conner, and how she’s not trying to create sympathetic characters.

– Lee Isaac Chung

Karin Slaughter

Flannery O’Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn’t understand what she was doing. I didn’t see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

– Karin Slaughter

Frances Mayes

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O’Connor, James Agee, and – do we dare breathe the name – William Faulkner.

– Frances Mayes

Floyd Skloot

Flannery O’Connor’s brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

– Floyd Skloot

Floyd Skloot

For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, ‘Flannery’ will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.

– Floyd Skloot

Floyd Skloot

In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O’Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother’s farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.

– Floyd Skloot

Donald Ray Pollock

I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O’Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.

– Donald Ray Pollock

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