| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42829 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| 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. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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