A common room: essays, 1954-1987
A source page for quotes linked to Reynolds Price.
“What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.”
“The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.”
“Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.”
“Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.”
“The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.”
“I've met little meanness, wherever I went.”
“I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.”