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

— E. O. Wilson

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

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

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted…

— Karin Slaughter

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

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

— Walton Goggins

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

— Robert Morgan

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

— Richard Wright

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

— Mary Steenburgen

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