Quotes by Appalachia I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. Carlisle Floyd appalachia would-be writing I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia. Donald Ray Pollock outburst appalachia thinking There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing. Shane Claiborne appalachia urban poverty