In preindustrial times, according to one study, inequality…

If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if…

— Bill Bryson

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

— Robert Morgan

“Henry,that's how you get rid of fleas. You keep them from laying eggs. You go to war with them.”

— Jason Jack Miller

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

— Greil Marcus

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

— Carlisle Floyd

I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that…

— Ashley Monroe

“Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found…

— Adriana Trigiani

“I couldn’t describe the smells of West Virginia, even if I tried. It has something to do with the leaves composting in the woods,…

— Heather Day Gilbert

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles…

— Doc Watson

I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the…

— John Mackey

Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of…

— Lee Smith

While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of…

— Charles Frazier

You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out the front…

— Dave Barry

“The state of New York had just one important advantage—an opening to the west through the Appalachian Mountains, the chain that runs in rough…

— Bill Bryson

“When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water.”

— Heather Day Gilbert