“Oh, if our children actually knew how much we love them, they’d never be able to hit any of these balls, they’d be simply immobilized by the force of it, by the awful force of our love.” — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.” — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“...for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.” — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
