American - Novelist | May 1, 1940 -
You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.
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It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.
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The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.
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We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.
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I wanted to be somebody, go somewhere, do something with my life.
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I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.
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I never, ever talk about writing to anyone at all.
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Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.
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I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.
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Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.
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Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.
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