“Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.” Defending imaginative reshaping of traditional stories over strict historical record · Preface to Carolina Chansons (1922) Imagination Legend Storytelling
“Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.” On the double danger of pure regionalism and empty generality in writing · Preface to Carolina Chansons (1922) Locality Universality Writing
