I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.
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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.
I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.
You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
I always had good recognition from the Southern writers, but the publishers never took any notice of that.
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.
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