Famous Quotes | Whenever I’m asked why...

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological. - Flannery O’Connor
Attribution: Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964), U.S. fiction writer and essayist. Mystery and Manners, part 2 (1969). Written in 1957. O’Connor, a lifelong Georgian, invented many fictional characters often described as freakish or “grotesque.” She was a committed Roman Catholic.

Categories: Abnormality, Fiction Writer And Essayist, Religion, South (American)

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