The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.
Charles KuraltI could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles KuraltYou know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
Charles Kuralt