Busy Quote by William Faulkner

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

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

— Robert Morgan

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

— William S. Burroughs

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

— Walker Percy

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

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add…

— Chinua Achebe

One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

— Dana Perino

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

— E. O. Wilson

Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which…

— David Simon

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

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

— Eudora Welty

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

— Sharyn McCrumb