Quote by: Flannery O'Connor

The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured in an interpretation. If teachers are in the habit of approaching a story as if it were a research problem for which any answer is believable so long as it is not obvious, then I think students will never learn to enjoy fiction. Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling for a story is absent, theory will not supply it.


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Author Bio


  • NameFlannery O'Connor
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, short story writer
  • BornMarch 25, 1925
  • DiedAugust 3, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Essayist
  • WorksWise Blood; The Violent Bear It Away; A Good Man Is Hard To Find
  • AwardsNational Book Award