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“And then we had the wake. It was lovely with tears and laughter, roar and uproar. Nobody died. Well, only a little. We all died a little. But death mostly let us be. Death seemed to think there was, for us, a fate worse than it. Which left us alive in the end, and so very, very drunk.”

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Author:'Come Again No More,' David Wesley Williams

“Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people. It is all-the good and the bad-carted up and brought along from one generation to the next. And everything that is brought along is colored and shaped by those who bring it.”

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Book:A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

Source: A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

“I know this place like I know the calluses on my hands.”

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Book:Dogwood Blues

Source: Dogwood Blues

“He tried the crank radio, a pirate station out of Memphis. Static and guitar scratch, the straggling notes of a song about home.”

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Author:David Wesley Williams, Everybody Knows (2023)

“Heaven must be like this, a place where no one laughed at you or touched you in a way that hurt, a place where you could share an egg cream with a friend.”

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Book:Janice Everet: a southern gothic Jane Eyre retelling

Source: Janice Everet: a southern gothic Jane Eyre retelling

“With red clay between my toes, and the sun setting over my head, the ghost of my mother blows in, riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord, riding on a honeysuckle breeze.”

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Author:Brenda Sutton Rose

“Although I wasn't there to bear witness, I imagine Lot's wife scanned the masses for her children. Perhaps she sought out the curves of their mouths and the shapes of their faces, trying to memorize her children, grown now. She looked back as I and any strong, loving mother would have done.”

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Book:Dogwood Blues

Source: Dogwood Blues

“At 2:00 sharp on the afternoon of his internment, with his body resting in a casket in the front room of his home, the pallbearers--all bridge players--stuck a deck of cards in Mr. Hampton's cold hands, shut the lid over his head, and played bridge.”

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Book:Dogwood Blues

Source: Dogwood Blues

“I don't really like to go on emotional rides with people. I like to drive.”

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Author:Toni Orrill

“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. Their words are lush like the land they come from, filled with nine aunties, people named Bubba. There is something extravagant and wild about what they have to say — snakes on the roof of a car, swamps, a delta, sweat, the smell of sea, buzz of an air conditioner, Coca-Cola — something fertile, with a hidden danger or shame, thick like the humidity, unspoken yet ever-present. Often when a southerner reads, the members of the class look at each other, and you can hear them thinking, gee, I can't write like that. The power and force of the land is heard in the piece. These southerners know the names of what shrubs hang over what creek, what dogwood flowers bloom what color, what kind of soil is under their feet. I tease the class, "Pay no mind. It's the southern writing gene. The rest of us have to toil away.”

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Author:Natalie Goldberg

“What is the fire of inspiration that resides within, if not something to follow along a path?”

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Book:Mourning Dove

Source: Mourning Dove

“Maybe these dreams of ours just floats away. Here we go again...changin' face.”

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Book:False Dandelions

Source: False Dandelions

“The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.”

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Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose