Quotes About Bobbie Ann Mason

I often say flippantly that the short story is... shorter; you can be done with it more easily. It's much less of a commitment of time and energy than a big project like a novel or long nonfiction book.

Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.