Yeah, but a hellbender never dies. You ever see a dead one?

I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on…

— Barack Obama

“Appalachia, an Indian name meaning “Endless Mountains”, is well suited to the land. The Appalachians are one of the oldest mountain ranges in the…

— Nancy Richmond

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two…

— Sam Trammell

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

— Shane Claiborne

Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in…

— Michael Bloomberg

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there…

— William Gibson

“Religion played a major part in the history of the Appalachian pioneers. Their way of life was characterized by a strong sense of independence…

— Nancy Richmond

“What keeps a poor child in Appalachia poor is not what keeps a poor child in Chicago poor—even if from a distance, the outcomes…

— Ijeoma Oluo

“Appalachia teaches us that breaking people out of bad communities has more promise than changing those communities wholesale; that encouraging family stability—or at least…

— Anonymous

But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up…

— Jeff Goodell

“Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn't sleep the whole night through. He'd lay in bed 'til the morning came,…

— Jason Jack Miller

“Here's how I'll tell you what I think—if you see white smoke then you know I picked a new pope. And if I'm drinking…

— Jason Jack Miller

“While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation…

— Jack E. Weller