If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero..

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show..

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Ten….

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washing….

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at..

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business..

I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley..

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams..

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers..

I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. ….

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee..

My problem with Obama is that he's not a new paradigm; he's an old paradigm. A new paradigm would be somebody like Harold Ford [former Democratic Con….

This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I o….

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature..