Daily Flannery O'Connor Quotes

However, it does seem to me that you don’t have to rely on the virtue of prudence to prevent pornography in your writing, but that you must first anyway rely on the virtue of art. Pornography and sentimentality and anything else in excess are all sins against form, and I think they ought to be approached as sins against art rather than as sins against morality. At least this is practical in these times when most writers are pagans and if you are going to talk in terms they can understand.

—Flannery O’Connor