Top 52 Quotes by Bobbie Ann Mason

About Bobbie Ann Mason

These are some quotes by American author Bobbie Ann Mason Novelist, who was born on May 1, 1940.

In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.

In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

Bobbie Ann Mason

I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.

Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Sometimes a book I'm reading is so terrific that when I finish, I simply turn back to page one and start all over again to see what I've missed, to experience it again, more deeply, or because I don't want to let it go.

Bobbie Ann Mason

I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.

Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.

Bobbie Ann Mason

The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.

The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.

Bobbie Ann Mason

With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of carry around that shame, that feeling of being inferior to the North. I think I did lose some of the accent for a while. Because when I was a graduate student, I was terrified at having to get up in front of a roomful of smart New York kids.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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