Because Quote by Natasha Trethewey

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

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

— Robert Morgan

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

— Gore Vidal

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

I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that.…

— William Gibson

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

— Eudora Welty

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

— Reynolds Price

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have…

— Richard Ford

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

— E. O. Wilson

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

— Walker Percy