I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
