“I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was...” — Lee Smith Quote

“I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.”

“I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say.”

“The Church in England is the Church of England.”

“Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.”

“I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.”