Breece D'J Pancake Quotes

United States, Short Story Writer
June 29, 1952 – April, 8, 1979.

Breece D'J Pancake was an American short story writer. Pancake was a native of West Virginia. Several of his short stories were published in The Atlantic Monthly and other periodicals during his lifetime. Pancake committed suicide on Palm Sunday, 1979, at the age of 26. His motives for suicide are still somewhat unclear.

i feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.

Breece D'J Pancake
- Moving
- Years
- Feels
I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.

Breece D'J Pancake
- Writing
- Mother
- Soul