Southern Novel Quotes

#1. I look at you, Mrs. Emily. I see your eyes smile before your lips. Your hair has a curl that droops onto your forehead when the weather is humid . . .

I look at you too, Sabine. I see you.

Phyllis H. Moore

#2. I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community,

Johnny Weir

#3. My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

Harper Lee

#4. The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be confused with perfection.

Patricia Hickman

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

Randolph Randy Camp

#6. If I were a seagull
I wouldn't have to stick around
If people argued- I would fly off,
swerve, wheel, dip, scream.
a thousand wings of company if I have friends
two strong wings of my own
If I don't

Caroline B. Cooney

#7. Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing.

Chris Prentiss

#8. Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Harper Lee

#9. I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. He was wearing a little bag of "Mojo" around his neck.

Nancy B. Brewer

#11. I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

John Darnielle

#12. When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.

Scott Thompson

#13. It was said by Abraham Lincoln that Ms. Stowe's novel, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, started the great civil war, the it can be said with certainty that Ms. Brown's novel THE SOUTHERN CROSS reveals the untold story behind the Civil Rights Movement." John Jeter

Alabama Jane Brown

#14. In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

E. O. Wilson

#15. Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms, the wet woods flecked with bloodroot, and wild roses and honeysuckle flashing white among the chestnuts on the mountainsides...

Sharyn McCrumb

#16. I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme usurped my life, spilling over into my novels until love was no longer a small voice, but now my purpose as a writer.

Patricia Hickman

#17. When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.

Mary Oliver

#18. There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

Sandra Fluke

#19. Tossed By Waves,
She Does Not Sink.

Lauren Kate

#20. Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.

David Baldacci