Cities Quote by Beat Streuli

As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to…

— Raul Castillo

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

— Ellen Burstyn

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

— Ari Marcopoulos

If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has…

— Wallace Stegner

Living through the intersections of cultural diversity has given me an intimate understanding of the dynamics of living between the dimensions of East and…

— Deeyah Khan

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina,…

— Nicholas Sparks

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about…

— Jimenez Lai

I was born in Indiana and raised in Oregon and there's a strong sense of individualism, particularly in Oregon. And my mom is an…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the…

— Alice Munro

Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that raised me,…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I…

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

I need to have one foot inside and one foot outside a culture to be able to write about it. For example, I couldn't…

— Rabih Alameddine