O’Conner on the importance of belief
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Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. … I write with a solid belief in ll the Christian dogmas. I find that this in no way limits my freedom as a writer and that it increases rather than decreases my vision. It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. this may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer to believe nothing is to see nothing. I don’t write to bring anybody a message, … this is not the purpose of a novelist; but the message I find in the life I see is a moral message.
Flannery O’Conner in The Habit of Being
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