The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tr…

- Willie Morris

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

- Willie Morris

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 un…

- Willie Morris

My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charis…

- Willie Morris

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

- Willie Morris

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, wit…

- Willie Morris

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

- Willie Morris

When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steer…

- Willie Morris

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

- Willie Morris