Living-dead-in-dallas Quote by Charlaine Harris

“To own an orange grove in Southern California is to live on the real gold coast of American agriculture.”

— Carey McWilliams

“One Trump tenant disturbed by the de facto segregation was the Oklahoman Woodrow Wilson Guthrie—or Woody, as the folksinger was known. He had moved…

— Michael Kranish

“He said that for those who hadn't been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island. The spitting image. Just like…

— Roberto Bolaño

“I’m gonna make race the basis of politics in this state, and I’m gonna make it the basis of politics in this country.” Later,…

— Bill O'Reilly

“The land is green! Live your dreams.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“I asked him if he thought “there” was better than “here.” “Not better,” he said. “I mean, my great-great-grandpap got his leg shot off.…

— Tony Horwitz

“I noticed that the houses in Fort Smith were numbered but it was no city at all compared to Little Rock. I thought then…

— Charles Portis

“Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out…

— Lewis Nordan

“Southern California is a landscape of edges and contradictions set upon by a variegated human population that at times seems hell bent to leave…

— Penelope Grenoble

“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

“This was the place, the place I would have come on my own wandering binge, come here and lodged like a marble in a…

— James Crumley

“country road on the day they first viewed the property.  She had taken one look at it as they drove into the driveway and…

— Michael Bunker