21 Quotes by Willie Morris

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

I can sometimes hear her music now, after thirty years -- and remember the leaves falling on some smoky autumn afternoon, the air crisp and the sounds of dogs barking, and train whistles far away.

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.