Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

Professional Southerners sicken me.

Literature is the history of the soul.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

It’s to your best interest to be patient with your REAL self as you nurture it back into existence." ~ Linda Deir

It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

A mistake a lot of girls make is that they work out but don't eat enough. If you're not eating enough, all the work outs are doing, it's not going to show.

America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.