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Well, for one thing, literacy came late to a lot of Southern Appalachia. So, the idea of reading and writing was exciting and novel. And it became a great thing to become a writer, where if you were a writer, you were like a movie star, in a sense. The other part is that people in these mountains like language, we like words and we like what people have to say
Fred Chappell Carolinian
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Interviews with Garret K. Woodward, collected in "A life immersed in the written word," The Smoky Mountain News, January 11, 2024
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