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

Willie Morris

I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.

Willie Morris

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

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

Willie Morris

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.

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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Willie Morris

Willie Morris

Willie Morris

Born: November 29, 1934

Died: August 2, 1999 (aged 64)

Bio: William Weaks "Willie" Morris, was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi, though his family later moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, which he immortalized in his works of prose.

Known for:

North toward home (1967)
My Dog Skip (1995)
The courting of Marcus Dupree (1983)
Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo (1971)
My cat Spit McGee (1998)

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