One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's.

Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.

Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.