Quotes about Mississippi authors

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His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever su — Elizabeth Spencer, This Crooked Way
He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright — Elizabeth Spencer, This Crooked Way
She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway. — Ellen Gilchrist, Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
But the book! The siren song of the book! — Ellen Douglas, Witnessing
I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know — Endesha Ida Mae Holland, From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir
It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left w — Ellen Gilchrist, Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories
Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them. — Augusta Scattergood, Glory Be
We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now . . . won't make no difference, will i — Larry Brown, Dirty Work
Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape — Ellen Gilchrist, The Courts of Love: Stories
We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting d — Ellen Gilchrist, Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle
Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. — Steve Yarbrough, Safe from the Neighbors
All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash) — Larry Brown
August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furio — Elizabeth Spencer, Fire in the Morning
She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if — Augusta Scattergood, Glory Be
I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work — Larry Brown, Dirty Work
I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything. — Augusta Scattergood, Glory Be
For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front pictur — Augusta Scattergood, Glory Be