Back Quote by Ben Francis

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

— Vincent Schiavelli

I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going…

— Rachel Boston

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

My dad builds houses, and, for the earlier portion of my life anyway, we moved around quite a bit. It took us to some…

— John Gourley

I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on…

— Jesmyn Ward

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

— Ken Loach

My grandfather loved the countryside.

— Sophie Dahl

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles,…

— Debbie Reynolds

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower…

— John Major

London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

— Ruth Rendell

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

— Jack Nance

We did have a beautiful cottage in the Lake District which we spent lots of time in when I was younger.

— Phoebe Dynevor