Even Quote by Karin Slaughter

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic…

— Dean Koontz

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

— Reynolds Price

“Southerners have a lot to be proud of. We have survived, and we have overcome. Southern women, especially, have learned to be proud of…

— Deborah Ford

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

— Walton Goggins

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

— Eudora Welty

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

— Billy Bob Thornton

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can…

— Natasha Trethewey

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

— John Oliver

“You learn to forgive (the South) for its narrow mind and growing pains because it has a huge heart. You forgive the stifling summers…

— Amanda Kyle Williams

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

— Florence King

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's…

— Natalie Zea