Southern Writer Quotes
- So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their… — Donna Tartt
- There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners… — Flannery O'Connor
- I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident… — Flannery O'Connor
- I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of… — Walker Percy
- My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate… — Pat Conroy