To write about a place, you have to live there.

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial…

— Julia Glass

California is a great place to live if you're an orange.

— Anonymous

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

— David Guterson

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story.…

— Martin McDonagh

I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to…

— The Rocket Summer

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

— Ernest Hemingway

I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always…

— Lauren Alaina

My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about…

— Jason Isbell

There are two places that are hard to write about. A place like Britain, England in particular, which has been written about by everybody,…

— Paul Theroux

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way…

— William Saroyan

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a…

— Ernest Hemingway

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

— Ron Rash

I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know.…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It's always a strange moment when you get up on stage because in a way that's really the fulfilment of what you do, but…

— Alexi Murdoch