All Reynolds Price Quotes
- Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization. Cities
- A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions… Accounts
- Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world. Deadly
- As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank… Boring
- Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend… All
- The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives. Dominant
- I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. Amount
- The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. Fiction
- From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really… Age
- The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is… Arrangements
- I've met little meanness, wherever I went. Inspirational
- Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for. Ask
- You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to… Athletic
- Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder. Craves
- Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed Brand
- Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you. Funny
- Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show… Americans