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Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I wanted to be somebody, go somewhere, do something with my life.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I don't know, it is a very quiet rebellion. [ ... ] I don't get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I was very bookish and shy. I didn't have playmates, ever.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I never, ever talk about writing to anyone at all.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
