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

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

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 never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

— Mat Kearney

I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found…

— Karin Slaughter

Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

— Karin Slaughter

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

Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book.…

— John Lee Hancock

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

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