23 Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bobbie Ann Mason

American Novelist

Born: May 1, 1940

About Country Made Me People World

Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town. Bobbie Ann Mason

Life Me Farm Worlds Ways Allure Over Suppose Town Also Make Greater Came Go Were Up Ambitious Than Rewards Far Helped Radio Many Growing Growing Up Desire

I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone. Bobbie Ann Mason

Life Work Education Women Thought Ambition Trapped Everyone Way Exactly Never Primarily Limited Feminist Traditional Against Apathy Notion Whole Rebelled Early Rejected Rejecting

Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes. Bobbie Ann Mason

Food People Country Clothes Our Only Outside Had Town Make Because Felt Inferior Being Mile Grow Lived Conscious

I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book. Bobbie Ann Mason

Memory is a powerful thing for a writer. Bobbie Ann Mason

Memory Writer Powerful Powerful Thing Thing

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

Me Words Important Extremely Like Sounds Play

'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born. Bobbie Ann Mason

Knowledge School Father Girl Country Before High Born High School About She Quest Died Just Vietnam Who Her

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience. Bobbie Ann Mason

Made Country Broader Opened Also Audience Up Story Which Film

We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s. Bobbie Ann Mason

Water Mother Made Fire Way Outdoors Had Until She Did Heat Soap Grandmother Using Wash Washing Butter Kettle

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read. Bobbie Ann Mason

Me Too Tell Nobody Read Anything Shy

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues. Bobbie Ann Mason

Rock Rock And Roll Up Roll Blues Grew Rhythm

I read many riveting escape-and-evade accounts of airmen and of the Resistance networks organized to hide them and then send them on grueling treks across the Pyrenees to safety. But it was the people I met in France and Belgium who made the period come alive for me. They had lived it. Bobbie Ann Mason

Me People Hide Safety Made Met France Airmen Alive Networks Had Come Period Read Accounts Send Them Then Across Organized Who Many Belgium Lived Grueling Resistance

The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated. Bobbie Ann Mason

Family People Farm Small Family Farm Being Dying Lives

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