The South that exists in our minds really is the South that Faulkner wrote about, Flannery O'Connor wrote about, Eudora wrote about, Tennessee Williams wrote about, Carson McCullers. These guys sort of invented the South in some ways. The South was here of course and they were describing it. But for me anyway, the South as a literary idea comes from those writers, Andrew Lytle; I consider Mark Twain a southern writer. And so really it was their words more than anything specific about living here or growing up here that have shaped my work.