6 Quotes & Sayings By Bobbie Ann Mason

Bobbie Ann Mason is a prolific writer, with over seventy-five works to her credit. Her fiction has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor, Ralph Ellison, and Walker Percy. She was born in North Carolina in 1948 and grew up in a family that encouraged her love of reading and writing. Bobbie Ann received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Read more

She moved to New York City where she worked as a reporter for the National Observer, the Journal of American History, and the New York Post. She then turned to fiction and published two novels that garnered significant national attention: The Magic of Reality (1988) which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Dreamers (2001), named one of "The Best 100 Books of the Century" by the New York Times Magazine.

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Mary Lou suddenly realizes that Mack calls the temperature number because he is afraid to talk on the telephone, and by listening to a recording, he doesn’t have to reply. It’s his way of pretending that he’s involved. He wants it to snow so he won’t have to go outside. He is afraid of what might happen. But it occurs to her that what he must really be afraid of is women. Then Mary Lou feels so sick and heavy with her power over him that she wants to cry. She sees the way her husband is standing there in a frozen pose. Mack looks as though he could stand there all night with the telephone receiver against his ear. Bobbie Ann Mason
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One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself. Bobbie Ann Mason
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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
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When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season. Bobbie Ann Mason
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It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling. Bobbie Ann Mason