“What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started. I was already living it! Those were the most important years, and I didn't even know it.” — 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
