Art Quote by Chuck Klosterman

“Regrettably, all the people I know in Florida don't know about anything outside their great country. Plus they expect everyone to understand what they're…

— Alan Sugar

“If a theme runs through the history of Florida, it is this: something's great, and someone comes along to mess it up.”

— Eliot Kleinberg

“They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics.”

— Thomas McGuane

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

— Irwin Shaw

“I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. Something about his mud-encrusted boots and the…

— Ransom Riggs

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made…

— J. Robbins

Florida is such an unlikely place for a band, unless you're an emo or hardcore band. In terms of the touring route, or even…

— Carrie Brownstein

“Only old retired coots and gold-digging bimbos live in Florida.”

— Dean Koontz

“These days, Cal would no more go to a club than he would a rodeo. The deafening music, the blinding strobes, the drunk rowdy…

— Joe Ide

“To Florida -- its dreamers, its builders, its mavericks, and its scoundrels. (Sometimes all four at.)”

— Beatriz Williams

“Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as “so wild and horrid…

— Bill Bryson

“Bears shit in the woods, and everyone shits on Beartown”

— Fredrik Backman