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You can watch “Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O’Connor” for free on the PBS app. pbs.org/video/uncommon…

“I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

"Conviction without experience makes for harshness." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn’t try to write fiction.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.“ Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

"I went to the Cloisters twice and I particularly remember one statue that I saw there...It was the Virgin holding the Christ Child and both were laughing; not smiling, laughing." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery: that it has for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

"To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

You can watch “Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O’Connor” for free on the PBS app. pbs.org/video/uncommon…

"I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that." Flannery O'Connor

“If I even do get to be a fine writer it will not be because I am a fine writer, but because God has given me credit for a few of the things He kindly wrote for me." Flannery O'Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor

“For me it is the Virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor