Quote of the Day (Flannery O’Connor, on the Direction of a Life)

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”—American novelist and short-story writer Flannery O’Connor (1926-1964), Wise Blood: A Novel (1952)

I was glad to see, in the new film Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, not only that The Boss is reading a Flannery O'Connor book, but also that his producer and manager Jon Landau recalls this quote for him.

 I hope that more readers will be curious enough to seek out more work by this startlingly original voice in American fiction.