...[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
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
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
"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
