Cabins Quote by Walker Percy

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

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Robert Morgan

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 escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

— William S. Burroughs

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

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

I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context of these…

— Keith Carradine

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

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

— Walton Goggins