A country store on a dirt road near Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939. Dorothea Lange. Library of Congress , public domain.
I am only a storyteller whose themes are informed by faith, but do not preach it.
Doris Betts Carolinian
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"Everything I Know About Writing I Learned in Sunday School," address to the Presbyterian Writers Guild, General Assembly, Charlotte, June 1998
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“I am only a storyteller whose themes are informed by faith, …”
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All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls. North Carolina Literary Review, East Carolina University, 'Season of Storytelling,' October 15, 2023; recollection of Betts's teaching.
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