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Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for the sake of serenity but to hear the Voice inside. That is how the storyteller connects with with others--listen, write, share. ~ Patricia Hickman
Southern Fiction quotes by Patricia Hickman
Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be
overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds toward the final crisis in Act Three. If by Act Two the emotional river isn't spilling over the banks, I reassess the plot so that once the writing is flowing I don't slide into a dry creek. The central character should be struggling to navigate life well into the end of Act One, even if her fiercest antagonist is only from within. ~ Patricia Hickman
Southern Fiction quotes by Patricia Hickman
Today, it is the scent of honeysuckle that takes me back in time and lays me down near a barn. I pick a honeysuckle blossom, touch the trumpet to my nose and inhale. With sticky filthy fingers, I pinch the base of its delicate well then lick the drop of nectar. The sweet liquid makes me thirst for more, and I reach for another and another, the same hands that reach again and again for tobacco as I string. I separate honeysuckle blossoms and taste. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose
Southern Fiction quotes by Brenda Sutton Rose
There were thousands of children just like her in the world. She had walked through the fire and come out the other side scorched, but not consumed by it. ~ J.L. Murphey
Southern Fiction quotes by J.L. Murphey
And when the clouds come, I sink; and when the skies dawn, I rise. ~ Toni Orrill
Southern Fiction quotes by Toni Orrill
Life can surprise you. You want something with every ounce of blood that flows in your veins, and then one day it's yours. Right there before you. Everything. You break out in a cold sweat with the undeniable realization that what you really want is home. Sometimes finding home is a long time coming. A long journey. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose
Southern Fiction quotes by Brenda Sutton Rose
Them dandelion wishes float and float for miles hoping they might get lucky and find a place to root. ~ Randolph Randy Camp
Southern Fiction quotes by Randolph Randy Camp
Christians are the salt of the earth ... Nothing grows where they've been. ~ Donald Hays
Southern Fiction quotes by Donald Hays
Southerners. Such literate, civilized folk, such charm and cleverness and passion for living, such genuine interest in people, all people, high and low, white and black, and yet how often it had come to, came to, was still coming to vicious incomprehension, usually over race but other things too - religion, class, money. How often the lowest elements had burst out of the shadows and hollers, guns and torches blazing, galloping past the educated and tolerant as nightriders, how often the despicable had run riot over the better Christian ideals... how often cities had burned, people had been strung up in trees, atrocities had been permitted to occur and then, in the seeking of justice for those outrages, how slippery justice had proven, how delayed its triumph. Oh you expect such easily obtained violence in the Balkans or among Asian or African tribal peoples centuries-deep in blood feuds, but how was there such brutality and wickedness in this place of church and good intention, a place of immense friendliness and charity and fondness for the rituals of family and socializing, amid the nation's best cooking and best music... how could one place contain the other place? ~ Wilton Barnhardt
Southern Fiction quotes by Wilton Barnhardt
Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction. ~ Janice Daugharty
Southern Fiction quotes by Janice Daugharty
The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox. ~ Patricia Hickman
Southern Fiction quotes by Patricia Hickman
Well, honey, it is the south. These debutantes know how to verbally kick anyone's ass. They learned it from their mamas in the womb. ~ Magan Vernon
Southern Fiction quotes by Magan Vernon
Hiding had been effortless in New York City. Getting lost in a sea of people was as easy as stepping onto a crowded Subway car. Sweet Laurel Cove would be very different. Generations of families filled its church pews, ran its farms, and schooled its children. Anonymity was as rare as lightning bugs in wintertime - as her grandmother would say. ~ Teresa Tysinger
Southern Fiction quotes by Teresa Tysinger
Are you aware that Jesus Christ can spell? I get so tired of you spelling every slang and cuss word that crosses your mind, as though you are pulling one over on the Lord. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose
Southern Fiction quotes by Brenda Sutton Rose
Raw Living: Picking blackberries, beneath late afternoon sun; a sunset reminiscent of watermelon sangria, as the scent of honeysuckle accosts me and the ducks waddle into the lake. Thanking Mama Nature for her abundance. Loving this candied-sweet southern life. ~ Brandi L. Bates
Southern Fiction quotes by Brandi L. Bates
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. ~ Flannery O'Connor
Southern Fiction quotes by Flannery O'Connor
I write books with words. Numerous words. Words that stomp and stare and crush and collapse and boogie and bang and scream and laugh and manipulate. My books are a storehouse of words that form paragraphs that form chapters that form stories that form thoughts that live on long after you've read the last word. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose
Southern Fiction quotes by 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. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose
Southern Fiction quotes by Brenda Sutton Rose
It wasn't that she believed in voodoo, precisely - but she believed in the people who believed in voodoo - and that was scary enough.

-Coralee Ayers ~ Caitlin Rush
Southern Fiction quotes by Caitlin Rush
Writing is an act of faith. One must believe and see people who are invisible to others and be faithful to tell half formed stories. It's like being on the trail of an apparition who's repeatedly just out of reach.
K. Youngblood ~ Katherine Imogene Youngblood
Southern Fiction quotes by Katherine Imogene Youngblood
The truth had lacerated him to the bone, had punctured his heart, and had ripped through his soul. The truth had slain him and tended to his wounds. The truth had hated him and loved him. The truth had opened his eyes to his own faults. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose
Southern Fiction quotes by Brenda Sutton Rose
I'd always thought of him as one of those fat catfish swimming in the Catawba River, trudging along the bottom with his belly in the mud, his mouth open, feeding on whatever he came across. ~ Wiley Cash
Southern Fiction quotes by Wiley Cash
Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South. ~ Janisse Ray
Southern Fiction quotes by Janisse Ray
There are two things I am afraid of. One is dying young. The other is Johnny Monroe. ~ Susan Gabriel
Southern Fiction quotes by Susan Gabriel
I reckon it's true what they say that good begets good and bad begets bad. The evil men do lives on after them, but what good they done gets buried with their bones. ~ Lisa Kaye Presley
Southern Fiction quotes by Lisa Kaye Presley
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. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose
Southern Fiction quotes by Brenda Sutton Rose
We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn't make them any less painful. ~ Nicki Salcedo
Southern Fiction quotes by Nicki Salcedo
It felt like I had a thousand packs of Strawberry Pop Rocks simultaneously detonating in my chest, and I dilated at least eight centimeters! ~ Piper Faust
Southern Fiction quotes by Piper Faust
What is the fire of inspiration that resides within, if not something to follow along a path? ~ Claire Fullerton
Southern Fiction quotes by Claire Fullerton
We don't always get what we want. And sometimes, when we do, it's not worth the price. ~ Stephanie Lawton
Southern Fiction quotes by Stephanie Lawton
The confessional writer will treat her story like a wailing wall. She kneels, and her story spills out, messy, improper. It isn't a protest or even graffiti, but her story is an offering of things that she overlooked or notices that others have overlooked. She is in danger of exposure but she remembers when she lived in hiding and that was worse. She cannot turn back now because this is how life has spun out of her, part vexing passage and part prayer. ~ Patricia Hickman
Southern Fiction quotes by Patricia Hickman
As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose
Southern Fiction quotes by Brenda Sutton Rose
Livy hadn't anticipated meeting anyone and wasn't ready to explain why the last few years
of her life had worn her so much, leaving her searching for home. Surely, Jack didn't care to hear a sob story from a perfect stranger. Actually, Livy wasn't sure she believed that. Something whispered inside her soul that Jack was just the person she needed to tell. ~ Teresa Tysinger
Southern Fiction quotes by Teresa Tysinger
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
Southern Fiction quotes by Patricia Hickman
There is an old saying that every story, even your own, is either happy or sad depending on where you stop telling it. I believe I'll stop telling this one here. ~ Wiley Cash
Southern Fiction quotes by Wiley Cash
He ascended the mountain in darkness, no lamplight, a world black and silver and blue. The moon lay scattered through the woods in blades, glowing palely, the wind rising now and again to moan through the trees. The trail scrawled ever upward, toward the looming darkness of the mountain's peak. Above it all the sea of night, the strange ornamentation of stars. ~ Taylor Brown
Southern Fiction quotes by Taylor Brown
Margaret Calhoun may not have been a holy roller, but she sure could fry the Hell out of a chicken. ~ Steven Norton
Southern Fiction quotes by Steven Norton
Ruby's was where I'd long picked up delicious bits and pieces of small-town troubles, and of course, Ramona Jean was my very best source. ~ Steven Norton
Southern Fiction quotes by Steven Norton
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. ~ Robert Morgan
Southern Fiction quotes by Robert Morgan
He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, but it eludes me. I've been trying to catch a ghost for as long as I can remember. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose
Southern Fiction quotes by Brenda Sutton Rose
It might be late September, but is was hot as the six shades of hell. ~ Charlaine Harris
Southern Fiction quotes by Charlaine Harris
Easy for you to say," Polly said. "You've lived here all your life and stayed under the radar. No one points at you."
"Sometimes small children point at my butt," Aunt Rhea said. "But that's just on account of all the fried chicken. ~ Kathy Hepinstall
Southern Fiction quotes by Kathy Hepinstall
Why, she's as mild as a flower! She ain't hurt nobody! Now git in the kitchen and git some chicory! ~ Toni Orrill
Southern Fiction quotes by Toni Orrill
Because of sorrow, my awareness of life's pulse is strongly detectable. It is syncopation while I journey, a lap of ocean in the eyes of every person I meet. This awareness informs the flesh of my stories. Grief has been an odd companion, at first a terror, but now I am all the better having accepted it for its intrinsic worth. ~ Patricia Hickman
Southern Fiction quotes by Patricia Hickman
Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous zones. ~ Scott B. Pruden
Southern Fiction quotes by Scott B. Pruden
Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time. ~ Donald Hays
Southern Fiction quotes by Donald Hays
The difference between vampires and angels? Angels are real. ~ Lisa Grace
Southern Fiction quotes by Lisa Grace
I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. ~ Christopher Stocking
Southern Fiction quotes by Christopher Stocking
It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak. ~ Anne McCaffrey
Southern Fiction quotes by Anne McCaffrey
If the future was bared before you, would it still be yours? If the past could chase you, would you run from it? If the world crumbled tonight, would you carve your own? ~ Nicholas Rinth
Southern Fiction quotes by Nicholas Rinth
I have knowledge; I'm responsible. If I sit by and do nothing while I have the ability to change, to help, then I'm just as much a criminal as any. Power begets responsibility...You should know that. ~ Brandon R. Chinn
Southern Fiction quotes by Brandon R. Chinn
The best part of being a nanny, Katya thought, was reading children's books aloud to enraptured children like Tricia, for no one had read such books aloud to her when she'd been a little girl. There hadn't been such books in the Spivak household on County Line Road, nor would there have been any time for such interludes. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Southern Fiction quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
I am not capable of love. - Felix ~ Donna Galanti
Southern Fiction quotes by Donna Galanti
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true. ~ Jonathan Swift
Southern Fiction quotes by Jonathan Swift
If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction. ~ William Gibson
Southern Fiction quotes by William Gibson
Not knowing is another form of torture. ~ Ale Meza-Santiago
Southern Fiction quotes by Ale Meza-Santiago
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. ~ Kathy Reichs
Southern Fiction quotes by Kathy Reichs
She gently bit his bottom lip, his ear. Worked her way down his body until she reached the inside of his thigh, then bit hard, breaking the skin, drawing blood. "My mark," she said, looking up at him. "Now you'll go back to your wife with my mark. ~ Dominique Wilson
Southern Fiction quotes by Dominique Wilson
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two. ~ Sara Sheridan
Southern Fiction quotes by Sara Sheridan
Unquestionably, New York enjoyed enormous strategic significance. As Adams had already apprised Washington, it was the nexus of the Northern and Southern colonies ... the key to the whole Continent, as it is a Passage to Canada, to the Great Lakes, and to all the Indian Nations. ~ Joseph J. Ellis
Southern Fiction quotes by Joseph J. Ellis
There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people ... mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind that pays better. ~ Richard Castle
Southern Fiction quotes by Richard Castle
I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story. ~ Emily Susan Rapp
Southern Fiction quotes by Emily Susan Rapp
...but Marcel in the novel does not merely remember what happened to him when he was younger and lived the life of a dilettante, in most cases he invents, he speculates, imagines makes up stories about himself and the other characters in the novel. Yes, Marcel constantly invents, right before our eyes, what he thinks happened, or might have happened, or ought to have happened, especially since, in many instances, he was not present himself to witness what happened, or if he was present he was unable to hear or see what was happening. That is, in fact, the key to this novel: that Marcel does not simply remember what he tells us, but that he speculates on the basis of what he thinks he remembers. Therefore, it is not memory but imagination that engenders the novel. A la recherche du temps perdu is not simply a work of fiction that looks backward to retrieve the past, it is above all a novel that looks forward towards its own future, towards its own making, as it reflects on its creative process. And that is also true of much contemporary fiction, or what has been called New Fiction, Metafiction, Anti-fiction, Postmodern Fiction, or Surfiction. ~ Raymond Federman
Southern Fiction quotes by Raymond Federman
And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
Southern Fiction quotes by Arthur C. Clarke
She thinks, briefly, that she has never felt so lonely in her life. ~ Jojo Moyes
Southern Fiction quotes by Jojo Moyes
Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or sometimes unwillingly goes through, until the reader finishes reading and sometimes even after that. ~ Arti Honrao
Southern Fiction quotes by Arti Honrao
Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said. ~ C.J. Anderson
Southern Fiction quotes by C.J. Anderson
The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction. ~ T.L. Rese
Southern Fiction quotes by T.L. Rese
She snorted in amusement at my remark. "When are the guards going to start to notice?"
Keith peered into the distance. "Starting now, ~ Erica Sehyun Song
Southern Fiction quotes by Erica Sehyun Song
When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie. ~ Dean Devlin
Southern Fiction quotes by Dean Devlin
I found I could only glance at him for tiny moments and then I had to look away. He was perfect enough to hurt my feelings for a long time, and I wanted to let him. ~ Laura Anderson Kurk
Southern Fiction quotes by Laura Anderson Kurk
In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each new person in the story, the meddah would change his voice, impersonating that character. Everybody could go and listen, you know ordinary people, even the sultan, Muslims and non-Muslims. Stories cut across all boundaries. Like "The Tales of Nasreddin Hodja," which were very popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans and Asia. Today, stories continue to transcend borders ~ Elif Shafak
Southern Fiction quotes by Elif Shafak
You've never been to another planet, have you Aimee?"
"No, but I've been to Disney World. ~ Maureen A. Miller
Southern Fiction quotes by Maureen A. Miller
Although richer and Number 1 in the charts at this very moment, I've come full circle; once again I am the lanky, ginger, friendless geek.- Egg ~ Jamie Scallion
Southern Fiction quotes by Jamie Scallion
I started seriously applying myself to writing fiction immediately after I finished graduate school. By 'seriously,' I mean that, instead of noodling along on a story, finishing it or not as the mood struck me, I set out to complete what I started, to polish it to the best of my ability, and to send out the finished story. ~ Jane Lindskold
Southern Fiction quotes by Jane Lindskold
I loathe popular pulp, I loathe go-go gangs, I loathe jungle music, I loathe science fiction with its gals and goons, suspense and suspensories. I especially loathe vulgar movies - cripples raping nuns under tables, or naked-girl breasts squeezing against the tanned torsos of repulsive young males. And, really, I don't think I mock popular trash more often than do other authors who believe with me that a good laugh is the best pesticide. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
Southern Fiction quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us. ~ Alaina Huffman
Southern Fiction quotes by Alaina Huffman
Yes, I'm rich. Get use to it. -- Christian Grey ~ E.L. James
Southern Fiction quotes by E.L. James
The Sword the burning decieved rising the science fiction the betrayed the spy the souls ~ Moira Young
Southern Fiction quotes by Moira Young
Welcome to the place on the other side of midnight. ~ Mladen Đorđević
Southern Fiction quotes by Mladen Đorđević
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