Willie Morris Quotes

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie