Book Quote by John Lee Hancock

“(Skip Litz) was road managing Todd Snider one time, which meant he had to sneak Todd's tiny dog, Lulu, into hotels. In Atlanta, Skip…

— Peter Cooper

There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child,…

— Rob Lowe

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

There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— William S. Burroughs

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs…

— Pat Conroy

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

“It was around the time of the divorce that all traces of decency vanished, and his dream of being the next great Southern writer…

— Stephanie Perkins

I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for…

— Donna Tartt

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be…

— J. A. Jance