Willie Morris Quotes

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.

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.