Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
Professional Southerners sicken me.
I am proud to be a Southerner.
Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
The southerner talks music.
One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For me, she's Miss Mattie T. Graham. I thought she needed something in the middle. If she's going to be an honorary Southerner, she's got to have something in the middle, so I just put an initial T and a period.
I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death.
The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.
Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a. 22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel. 410 shotgun when I was 10.
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.
A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how.
Southerners smile more than other Americans.
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
