Flannery O'Conner & Critics

"I'll be glad when Catholic critics start looking at what they've got to criticize for what it is itself, for its sort of "inscape" as [Gerard Manley] Hopkins would have had it. Instead they look for some ideal intention, and criticize you for not having it."

Flannery O'Connor, in a letter to Sister Mariella Gable on May 4, 1963