Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had…

“in for the evening. The town rose into view, the biggest Cora had seen since North Carolina, if not as long established. The long…

— Colson Whitehead

I would love to document all the interesting characters out on the East End. There are some really inspiring people - you can feel…

— Taylor Steele

I didn't know much about the East End and I didn't go trudging round to research it - couldn't be bothered with all that…

— June Brown

WITCHES OF EAST END !!!!! ANYONE ELSE WATCH THIS SHOW ??? BEAST

— Anonymous

I was brought up in the East End, and if a man was inappropriate in a bar, you'd throw your drink over him.

— Anita Dobson

Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and…

— Linda Grant

What intrigues me is that there are funny people in the real East End. It's famous for it. There'd be blokes dressing up as…

— David Jason

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there…

— Eddie Marsan

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders…

— James Herbert

I'm a proper Essex girl because my family was part of that great exodus from the East End.

— Nicola Walker

My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around…

— Nicola Walker

“A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box?”

— Nathan Hill

“I don’t know how, but the dormitory smells like sleep—like laundry and shoes and night sweats and morning coffee.”

— Veronica Roth

“the long high ceilings of the children’s dormitory”

— Martin Sixsmith

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge