Every Quote by Karin Slaughter

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

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with…

— Pat Conroy

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the…

— Pat Conroy

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

— E. O. Wilson

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and…

— Jodi Picoult

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

— Robert Morgan

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

— William S. Burroughs

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.

— Shannen Doherty

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

— Octavia Spencer

“My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the central book…

— Pat Conroy

The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's…

— Alexandra Adornetto