Sheri Joyce

“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, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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