“Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy.” — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.” — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.” — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
“I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.” — Anne Moody Copy Share Image
“I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work” — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
“Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape” — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current.… — Elizabeth Spencer Copy Share Image
“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw,… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
“We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if… — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“Christophe peeled the shrimp slowly and carefully: that was his way around her, and it was the exact opposite of his usual… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture… — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it… — Elizabeth Spencer Copy Share Image
“It's so nice to be around a man who isn't hung up about his car," she said. "Mom, I can't believe you're… — Martin Hegwood Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
“All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man… — Myrlie Evers-Williams Copy Share Image
“That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get… — Minrose Gwin Copy Share Image
“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright… — Elizabeth Spencer Copy Share Image
“It never registered to them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not… — Elizabeth Spencer Copy Share Image
“Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time… — Steve Yarbrough Copy Share Image
“August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat… — Elizabeth Spencer Copy Share Image
“We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now . . . won't make… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
“When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought… — Ellen Douglas Copy Share Image
“But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.” — Anne Moody Copy Share Image
“My rhythm was joined with that of the Mississippi seasons. To change would shift everything inside of me...” — Carolyn Haines Copy Share Image
“Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes.… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
