Flannery OConnor Quotes about Childhood

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Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

Flannery O'Connor

Southern, Childhood, Lasts

We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

Flannery O'Connor

Taken, College, Childhood

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.84, Macmillan

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

Flannery O'Connor

Childhood, Littles, Information

Flannery O'Connor (2014). “Mystery and Manners”, p.49, Faber & Faber