Quotes about Southern writers

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Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. The truth had slain h — Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues
{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might a — Nancy B. Brewer
I didn’t even know a piece of me was missing until I had her for the first time. — Jiffy Kate, Fighting Fire
My mother’s dress bears the stains of her life:blueberries, blood, bleach, and breast milk;She cradles in her arms a lif — Brenda Sutton Rose
Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom. — A.D. Sams
He ascended the mountain in darkness, no lamplight, a world black and silver and blue. The moon lay scattered through th — Taylor Brown, Gods of Howl Mountain
Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together. — Brenda Sutton Rose
The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
We are good at stories. We hoard them, like an old woman in a room full of boxes, but now and then we pull out our best, — Rick Bragg
Life can surprise you. You want something with every ounce of blood that flows in your veins, and then one day it's your — Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues
Many people, after spending a long weekend being stealthily seduced by this grand dame of the South, mistakenly think th — James Caskey, Charleston's Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City
I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really were. But all that chan — James Caskey, Haunted Savannah: America's Most Spectral City
Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase? The — James Caskey, The Haunted History of New Orleans: Ghosts of the French Quarter
Ask me about my childhood, and I will tell you to walk to the edge of the woods with a choir of crickets chirping from e — Brenda Sutton Rose
I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together. — Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Are you aware that Jesus Christ can spell? I get so tired of you spelling every slang and cuss word that crosses your mi — Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues
If I weren't so screwed up, I would've sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me feel pretty or who co — Miranda Parker, A Good Excuse to Be Bad
Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are — Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
I first witnessed the paranormal at the tender age of eight. This experience unlocked a doorway to a world full of unexp — L. Sydney Fisher, The Haunting of Natalie Bradford