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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.

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

The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.

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

It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.

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 used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.

Bobbie Ann Mason

During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.

Bobbie Ann Mason

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.

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

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

Bobbie Ann Mason

In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.

Bobbie Ann Mason

It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.

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.

Bobbie Ann Mason

I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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

Bobbie Ann Mason

You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture.

Bobbie Ann Mason

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

Bobbie Ann Mason