Believable Quote by Mary Alice Monroe

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

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

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

— Gore Vidal

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

— Robert Morgan

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

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

— E. O. Wilson

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

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

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

— Eudora Welty

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

— William S. Burroughs

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

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

— Billy Bob Thornton