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“Being in Indiana was harder than I had expected. As we spent time in the familiar community, we didn’t seem to fit in as…

— Ora-Jay Eash

“One of these days I'm going to leave Nebraska, cut all those strings and ties and travel to the other prairies of this earth.…

— John Janovy Jr

“This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we…

— William H. Gass

“As a child I read hoping to learn everything, so I could be like my father. I hoped to combine my father's grasp of…

— Annie Dillard

“I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to…

— Anonymous

“There’s something interesting about a voice crying out in the wilderness. It’s loud. It’s radical, and by implication, it must be willing and able…

— Michelle Walker-Wade

“ Nebraska is raw, primitive, ancient, other-worldly, spiritual, nihilistic, heartbreaking, horrifying and a whole bunch of other things that come to you like apparitions…

— David Burke

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.

— Thomas Naylor

“Transferring in haste, I felt a curious breathlessness as the cars rumbled on through the early afternoon sunlight into territories I had always read…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“I hope later she will see and feel a thing about these prairies I have given up talking to others about; a thing that…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“No other frontier has ever inspired so many of its people to write. The scenes of California, and the experiences of getting there an…

— Walton Bean