274 Flannery O’Connor letters unsealed

To fans of Bl. Flannery, this is very exciting news: 274 letters she wrote to longtime correspondent Betty Hester have been unsealed—one hopes they will also soon be published!

Here’s a writing gem from one of them, which I’m going to send out to the Quotesletter list:

“You would probably do just as well to get that plot business out of your head and start simply with a character or anything that you can make come alive,” she wrote to Hester. “Wouldn’t it be better for you to discover a meaning in what you write rather than to impose one? Nothing you write will lack meaning because the meaning is in you.”

Click here for an article in the Chicago Trib about the letters, which are on display at Emory University.