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Southern Writing Quotes






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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems (Southern Writing Quotes)
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish (Southern Writing Quotes)
While writing ‘Cold Mountain,’ I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He’s much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic (Southern Writing Quotes)
I’m accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That’s kind of what keeps me accountable (Southern Writing Quotes)