I think Quote by Harper Lee

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy…

— Harlan Coben

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

— Gore Vidal

Storytelling in Appalachian culture - it runs deep. You have these communities and families that, for a long time, were isolated, and if you…

— Tyler Childers

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

— Fred Kaplan

I want to be a part of the stories that need to be told.

— Lucy Fry

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

— Karin Slaughter

I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

— John Boyega

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

— Ron Rash

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place,…

— Lauren Groff

I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all…

— Karin Slaughter

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted…

— Karin Slaughter