Believe Quote by Willie Morris

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration…

— Barry Lopez

“The first thing to realize is that it is is a country that is still being imagined. Here every patch of earth has a…

— Daisy Goodwin

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

— Dean Koontz

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 think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Neither a land nor a people ever starts over clean. Country is compact of all its past disasters and strokes of luck–of flood and…

— John Graves

Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Reynolds Price

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

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 entire history of our family has played out in the fields and villages stretching away beneath that fell, between Lake District and Pennines,…

— James Rebanks

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

— Robert Adams