"Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence,..."
- Steve Yarbrough
"All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)"
- Larry Brown
"August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us."
- Elizabeth Spencer
"She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't standing smack-dab in the middle of the library, I wouldn't be wearing ..."
- Augusta Scattergood
"I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work"
"I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything."
"For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books."