Care Quote by Marcie Cohen Ferris

Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge…

— Mary Alice Monroe

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

— Billy Bob Thornton

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

— Dean Koontz

Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern food -…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

I think Hollywood sees so many parts of America through a very narrow prism. The South is no exception. And those stereotypes, while sometimes…

— Walton Goggins

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

— John Shelton Reed

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

— Karishma Tanna

“Southern culture is vivified, made a culture, by the melding of influences that are held far more closely than in other, lesser parts of…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good story. It's…

— Jan Norris

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

— Reynolds Price

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

— Eudora Welty