Occupation: Author Birth: October 26, 1945 Death: March 4, 2016
I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mer….
Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk..
These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and sh….
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal..
The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our ….
My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide..
Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else..
I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it..
My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children..
My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died….
I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one..
What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell i….
It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as prai….
I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing..
Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up..
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee..
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, th….
My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call..
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering int….
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and not….
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking..