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I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

From Bobbie Ann Mason

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.

From Bobbie Ann Mason

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

From Bobbie Ann Mason

Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.

From Bobbie Ann Mason

Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.

From Bobbie Ann Mason

During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.

From Bobbie Ann Mason

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

From Bobbie Ann Mason

I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord.

From Bobbie Ann Mason

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

From Bobbie Ann Mason

Bobbie Ann Mason

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