Linguistic Quote by Robert Morgan

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

— Robert Morgan

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

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

— Robert Morgan

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

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

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 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

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

— Gore Vidal

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

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

On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined.…

— Heather O'Neill

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

— Frances Mayes