Example Quote by Robert Morgan

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.…

— 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

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

— Gore Vidal

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

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

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

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

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

— Frances Mayes

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being…

— Robert Morgan

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

— Dean Koontz