Camps Quote by Randall Jarrell

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing…

— Mark Haddon

“Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you do, where…

— Frances Mayes

“They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers with…

— William Faulkner

“Was the decline and decay of those houses inevitable, absent the political pressure and military conflicts of those times? How do they look now,…

— Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

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

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs…

— Pat Conroy

“That summer was a long hot one, unusual for Ireland. As the days grew hotter the summer seemed endless. Gertrude was suspended in a…

— Anne McCabe

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

“The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had…

— Jack London