People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.
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Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
Southerners smile more than other Americans.
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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.
Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.
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