About Quote by Sissy Spacek

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

— Anson Mount

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

— Walton Goggins

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Eudora Welty

Southern women sometimes get dumbed down when they're turned into characters. I don't like that.

— Diana DeGarmo

We're just Southern people.

— Ronnie Van Zant

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

— Fred Schneider

I realized early on that it was important to have those values, a morality and ethics that come with being Southern girl. The way…

— Sarah Shahi

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

— Reynolds Price

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

— Frances Mayes