Ifs Quote by Harper Lee

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of…

— Bubba Sparxxx

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

— Anson Mount

“People might think folks in the South are nosey. Folks in the South don't ask questions to learn something; they ask to find out…

— Bill Peach

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina,…

— Nicholas Sparks

I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.

— Abigail Spencer

I tell ya, southern people, they always think you are hard-of-hearing. Every timr you leave they say to you, You come back, you hear?…

— Rodney Dangerfield

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the…

— Erskine Caldwell

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

— Iain Sinclair

The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country…

— Jason Isbell

Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a…

— Debra Granik

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk... When I go to…

— Megan Thee Stallion