“He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed another came, ceaselessly, shining.” ReadingWordsMississippi Authors Book:This Crooked Way Source: This Crooked Way
“To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins)” ReadingMississippi Authors Book:The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction Source: The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction
“It never registered to them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation. It would have been exactly the same to them if I had read through all twenty-six volumes of Elsie Dinsmore. (The White Azalea)” ReadingMississippi Authors Book:The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction Source: The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction