Charlotte Quote by Harry Hoover

Charlotte means a lot to me. This city has embraced me - allowed me to be who I am, allowed me to grow as…

— Kemba Walker

“Everything you needed to know about the South could be found in either Savannah or New Orleans.”

— Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

“Charleston is not the center of the universe, but it should be. That is the persistent perception of many locals.”

— Mark Jones

“More things we learned from the Rising: It’s hard to gentrify a city that’s on fire.”

— Mira Grant

“I had grown to love the very city in all its decrepit grandeur. I had walked every inch of it by now. I knew…

— Jacqueline Carey

“New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”

— John Kennedy Toole

“But nothing lasts forever. This city is changing for the worse. Sure it's getting bigger and it looks nicer, but the novelties are disappearing.…

— Jason Myers

“O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.”

— Travis Scott Bowman

“Make sure no one goes Eastwood in Charlotte.”

— David Litt

“South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south.”

— Colson Whitehead

“It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect;”

— Neil Gaiman