The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.
But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'
My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.