Southern Speech Quotes

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.