Quote by Padgett Powell

“But that’s Louisiana, lots of crazy Cajun stuff goes on over there. Who knows what they’re doing in those swamps!”

— Amy Weinland Daughters

“As long as I live, when I think about Louisiana, I'll remember glistening mist on a Cajun girl's hair, and walking together under those…

— William Woodall

“World is my Louisiana, I am its Mississippi.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“THE MINUTE YOU LAND IN NEW ORLEANS, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat,…

— Tom Robbins

I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to…

— Chris Rose

“That was the way it was in New Orleans, and in every old haunted city across the world. Ghosts vanished, and new ghosts arrived…

— Paula Morris

“Everything you needed to know about the South could be found in either Savannah or New Orleans.”

— Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl

“But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.”

— Amanda Stevens

“_____ and his thick slab of a Louisiana accent. . .”

— Tom Gliatto

“I learned to move silently in the background, a dirty, neglected little kid with no voice, no wants, and who made no trouble so…

— Laura Wiess

“By no means was crazy unique to the South,but it sure did love to parade it around on the front porch, give it a…

— Robert Reeves

“A small part of the South not yet gone with the wind.”

— Leila Meacham