“There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don’t have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we’ve got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.”
—Flannery O’Conner
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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Give me Flannery O’Conner and a Pumpkin Spice Latte and I’m halfway to heaven.
I’m in for Flannery O’Conner, Randall, but I’m a Latte purist–plain ole for me!
Nooooooo! 😄 That’s like grits without butter, donuts without glaze, dressing without giblet gravy, abstract art without Deborah Fagan Carpenter’s signature!
LOL! I’m notorious for not signing my work