How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic

“Only a Christian, nay a mystic, because he has some idea of what there is in man, can be a complete novelist.”
—Jacques Maritain

Literature . . . is the science or history partly and at best of the natural man, partly of man in rebellion. It is a contradiction in terms to attempt a sinless Literature of sinful man.
—Saint John Henry Newman

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it.
—Flannery O’Connor



How to Read (and Write) Like a Cath...