Reynolds Price Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

I said to one of my students a couple of years ago, what is it with you people? You never get off the phone to one another, you travel through whole continents to be with one another for 14 hours. And he said, Mr. Price, we had to invent families of our own, our own families disappeared.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.