Appalachian Quote by Judith Fertig

“I felt rippling wheat field and crows circling within me. I was a vase of sunflowers ready to spit seeds like weapons at the…

— Jodi Baker

“It was a lovely landscape. It was idyllic, poetical, and it inspired me. I felt good and noble. I felt I didn't want to…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Back then life was simple and sweet. Everything was simple and sweet. The taste of cherries, the cool shade, the fresh smell of the…

— Cyril Pedrosa

“But it was more than that. There was an indefinable ingredient, a kind of excitement. It had something to do with history and the…

— Barbara Vine

“First things first, though, I thought, and headed straight for the liquor cabinet. Times like this call for straight scotch, no rocks.”

— Susan Toy

“I loved the landscape, the heat, the unhurried days, the fragrant and languorous nights. But there was something else, too; a sense of belonging…

— Marie Jakober

“I had left small-town, rural life for good, and I had no intention of ever returning, not because I didn't like my home but…

— Siri Hustvedt

“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass…

— Willa Cather

“You take what you're given, whether it's the cornfields of the Midwest or the coal mines of West Virginia, and you make your fiction…

— Larry Brown

“He has the kind of Southern accent that makes you think of melting butter on biscuits, and porch swings.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

“Minnesota! It smelled like raspberries and sunlight and tender grass. It was summer, and everything was more beautiful than any picture she had carried…

— Ann Patchett

“While I waited for Adley to answer, I took in our surroundings. The sky was a lovely shade of pink, there were scattered flowers…

— Nicole Sobon