I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be…

“And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.”

— Lee Smith

Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a…

— Lee Smith

I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely…

— Lee Smith

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

I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to…

— Lee Smith

I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for…

— Lee Smith

I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us…

— Lee Smith

“...for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.”

— Lee Smith

“For once I am living my life rather than watching it pass in review.”

— Lee Smith

“I had before me an object lesson, I thought: two ways to face the world. One way as embodied by this old woman—simple, unassuming,…

— Lee Smith

“Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?”

— Lee Smith

“My belief is that we have only one life, that this is all there is.”

— Lee Smith

“To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. I don't even want good things…

— Lee Smith

“this point I could not show myself, of course, or all would”

— Lee Smith

“Perhaps any life is such: different stories like different strands, each distinct in itself, each true, yet wound together to form one rope, one…

— Lee Smith