Walker Percy Quotes about Writing

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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

Walker Percy

Writing, Titles, Metaphor

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

Walker Percy

Sex, Writing, Thinking

Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.94, Open Road Media

I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.

Walker Percy

Uncles, Writing, Wind

Walker Percy, Lewis A. Lawson, Victor A. Kramer (1993). “More Conversations with Walker Percy”, p.223, Univ. Press of Mississippi

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Walker Percy

Writing, Physicians, Medical

Walker Percy (2011). “The Thanatos Syndrome”, p.2, Open Road Media

Walker Percy Quotes about Writing

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