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.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

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

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.