Joyce Dyer > Quotes

“I piddle with words.”
― Joyce Dyer, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

“The women congregated in the kitchen or, in warm weather, sat in rocking chairs on the shady porches. The few men present squatted and talked in the yard or sat on a porch on the opposite side of the house.”
― Joyce Dyer, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

“I am out listening for the words, for the breath of my ancestors”
― Joyce Dyer, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

“Perhaps it takes a hybrid to help create a body of writing where once there was only oral tradition.”
― Joyce Dyer, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

“I found out I had a culture.”
― Joyce Dyer, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

“I regret now that I didn't listen to their stories more closely, for they were yarn spinners, too.”
― Joyce Dyer, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

“As this poem illustrates, place is not just location, geography; place is history, family, the shape and context of daily life.”
― Joyce Dyer, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

“Through writing, I have been looking back ever since, trying to recapture all that was left behind”
― Joyce Dyer, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

“who value a handshake more than an unreadable fancy signature,”
― Joyce Dyer, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

“I am a southern woman, and I write about the places that flavor me. I cannot help myself.”
― Joyce Dyer, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers