River Quote by Greg Keyes

“deeper mysteries Than all the tales of the sea.”

— Kenyatta García

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

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

“the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth…

— Kenneth Grahame

“We of the South,”

— Robert A. Caro

“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise…

— Myrlie Evers-Williams

“A story then...is water trying to get back to sea level”

— Henry Kitchell Webster

“The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters was indestructible;…

— James A. Michener

“Rivers spill mysteries into the ocean, and the ocean washes the answer to the shore.”

— Tanja Kobasic

“of the stream water.”

— Enid Blyton

“In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods — her fertile fields — her…

— Frederick Douglass

“Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the…

— Norman Maclean