"Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction."

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This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.

— Anne Wilkes Tucker