Excerpts on Writing from Success in Hill Country

Excerpts from Success in Hill Country:

Lee Smith, bestselling author of Fair and Tender Ladies, Saving Grace, Family Linen, Oral History, On Agate Hill, among others:

"I don't have a problem staying focused on a goal...I'd rather write than anything. It's a matter of arranging the rest of my life in order to do it...My writing has been a help to me through all times of personal crisis, a sustaining and nourishing thing."

Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of the Big Stone Gap series and most recently The Shoemaker's Wife:

"I get ideas from the smallest things. Sometimes it's the way a brick looks in the streetlight, or the line of a wool coat on a woman walking down the street, or something someone says that catches my ear. It's always small...Meaning comes from surrounding yourself with joy...and that includes the wallpaper."