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" Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Feel
Field
World
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" I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Me
Life
Growing Up
" I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Write
Country
Fellowship
" Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Early
Like
Me
" My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Back
Bad
Cloud
" In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Made
Childhood
Writing
" I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Think
You
World
" 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
War
Pollution
Cold War
" 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
Blue
World
War
" 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
Fear
Failure
Girl
" Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Literature
American
About
" I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Important
Words
Sounds
" Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Clothes
Country
Food
" I rejected the traditional notion of 'women's work,' but I never thought of my early ambitions in a feminist way, exactly. Primarily I rebelled against apathy and limited education. I was rejecting a whole way of life that I thought trapped everyone. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Work
Education
Life
" I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Reason
Because
Articulate
" 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
Growing
Growing Up
Up
" Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
World
Small
Think
" I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Energy
Short
Commitment
" Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Writing
Country
Lived
" I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Blues
Up
Rock And Roll
" The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Used
Farm
Old
" It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Calling
Romantic
Like
" The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
Home
See
Way
" 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
Child
Farm
Grandparents
" In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
New York
New
Kentucky