I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connecte…

Flannery O'Connor
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I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, p.10, Macmillan
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