Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith

...[A]n abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists..." ~  One Writer's
Beginnings, Eudora Welty, qtd. by Lee Smith 
"Culture" part of the preface p. xi
Eudora Welty : "luminous, lit from within" p.67
Fusion? or simply marble cake? :) p. 67
"God's Garden" by Dorothy Frances Gurney
Hush puppies : "tossed to the hounds around the campfire to keep them quiet." p. 37
I WAS UNCOMFORTABLE THE WHOLE TIME DOING THIS BOOK.
"[J]itterbugging wildly to ... Hank Williams..." p. 54 "Just go for it." p. 146
"...Kiss of the sun for pardon / The song of the birds for mirth / I am nearer God's heart in a garden / Than anywhere else on earth." ~ "God's Garden" by Dorothy Frances Gurney qtd. p.10
Lee Smith: A life spent developing character" by BY MARY E. MILLER
http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/books/article66860287.html

My favorite photo of Lee Smith, from the rafting trip during the "girls" era:
 from N and O article
"...[N]obody notices. p. 132
"[O]ur recipes tell us everything about us: where we live, what we value, how we spend our time." p.35
"... the [P]ossibility of change must arise" p.83
"Quality of freedom to be themselves which they wish to have." p.145
"Recipe Box"  photo from N and O article
"The[S]ecret ingredient is love." p. 40
"Thus I learned the position of the omniscient narrator, who sees and records everything, yet is never visible. It was the perfect early education for a fiction writer." p. 4
"I was [U]tterly fearless in those days; I could run like the wind, and hit like a boy." p. 56
"... and [V]enture forth fearlessly into the New South." p. 118
"It is another way of [W]histling past the graveyard." p. 162
"In my own memory, my elegant Aunt Millie was always referred to as an eXecutive secretary" p. 58
"And get [Y]our head out of them clouds, honey. Pay attention." p. 91
"since most of us writers can't be out there living like craZy all the time." p. 167

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