Southern Writers Quotes
Collection of top 22 famous quotes about Southern Writers
Southern Writers Quotes & Sayings
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I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
— Alice Walker
Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of "Wise Blood" that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote "Perhaps I am prematurely arrogant ...
— Flannery O'Connor
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
— Flannery O'Connor
Farm labor had stained his hands, but music stained his heart.
— Brenda Sutton Rose
She's a nice girl, but her bad girl's better.
— Jethro Tull
Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
— Flannery O'Connor
As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.
— Willie Morris
Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.
— Joseph E. Ledoux
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
— Saul Alinsky
Maybe these dreams of ours just floats away. Here we go again ... changin' face.
— Randolph Randy Camp
The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.
— Flannery O'Connor
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes thirty-three days to write a bookonly thirty-three days. remember, writers lie for a living. — Darynda Jones
I reckon Southern writers are a lot like biscuit makers...more than one can give ya a good feed.
— Lola Faye Arnold
Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
— Brenda Sutton Rose
Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner."Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ... — Katherine Anne Porter
Always give your customer something.
— Kevin Stirtz
We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older ... then it is very hard to change our minds
— Howard Gardner
How is it you can love someone when you hardly know them and how do you stop loving them once you do?
— Kate McGahan
