I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.