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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

— Robert Morgan

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…

— Walker Percy

I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can…

— Natasha Trethewey

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

— William S. Burroughs

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

— Ron Rash

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

— Gore Vidal

Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge…

— Mary Alice Monroe

Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a…

— Jesmyn Ward

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

— Walton Goggins

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

— Reynolds Price

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

— Eudora Welty