title: The Mississippi Book of Quotations
author: David Crews
description: David Crews has spent a lifetime collecting these quotes like some people collect baseball cards. I can't stop reading these quotes entertaining, inspiring, outrageous. This book features a mixture of writers, intellectuals, larger-than-life personalities, sports stars and buffoons. Mississippians have always had a way with words, and David Crews has captured some of the best. This is Mississippi s answer to Bartlett s, except a lot more fun to read and less pretentious. Reading The Mississippi Book of Quotations is like having a Who s Who of Mississippians over for dinner and getting to hear them utter their most memorable words. --Charles Overby, Former Chairman &amp; CEO of the Freedom Forum<br /><br />Among those at the top of my hero list is David Crews. Extraordinary in most every measurable way smart, courageous, disciplined, funny, spiritual, loyal, straightforward and totally honest. His collection of quotations is enriching and, to some extent, a reflection of his character and personality. --Robert Khayat, Chancellor Emeritus, The University of Mississippi<br /><br />If only Oscar Wilde one of the most quotable people who ever lived could be brought back to life and presented with this volume as a welcome back gift! He would surely treasure it and go on to declare Mississippi the true heartland of America. The quotes range from the sublime to the absurd; the noble to the wicked; the deliciously ironic to the utterly sincere and profound. I hope this collection finds its way into every public and private library, digital reading device, and bathroom in America. --Mark Salzman, Bestselling author of Iron &amp; Silk
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  Conversations with Gordon Lish
  
  
  Literary Conversations Series
  
  
  _Monika Gehlawat_
  
  
  _General Editor_
  
  
  
  
  
  Conversations with
  
  
  Gordon Lish
  
  
  Edited by David Winters and Jason Lucarelli
  
  
  University Press of Mississippi / Jackson
  
  
  [www.upress.state.ms.us](http://www.upress.state.ms.us)
  
  
  The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American
  University Presses.
  
  
  Copyright © 2018 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved
  
  
  Manufactured in the United States of America
  
  
  First printing 2018
  
  
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lish, Gordon,
  interviewee. | Winters, David, 1983– editor. |
  
  
  Lucarelli, Jason, editor.
  
  
  Title: Conversations with Gordon Lish/ edited by David Winters and Jason
  Lucarelli.
  
  
  Description: Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. | Series:
  Literary conversations series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  Identifiers: LCCN 2017057788 (prin