I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and…

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's…

— John Shelton Reed

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

— Ray Bradbury

I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem…

— Flannery O'Connor

I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought…

— Walker Percy

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for…

— Donna Tartt

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware…

— Jesmyn Ward

Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book.…

— John Lee Hancock

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs…

— Pat Conroy

There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the…

— Flannery O'Connor

I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place,…

— Lauren Groff

“It was around the time of the divorce that all traces of decency vanished, and his dream of being the next great Southern writer…

— Stephanie Perkins

I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of…

— Adele

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

— James Belushi

“and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.”

— Herman Melville