Top 7 Willie Morris Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

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

— Willie Morris

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

— Willie Morris

4. “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.”

— Willie Morris

5. “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

6. “The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada’s military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.”

— Willie Morris

7. “I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie.”

— Willie Morris

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