Identity Quote by Dana Gioia

In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have…

— Richard M. Weaver

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

— John Dufresne

“I feel so sorry for anyone who misses the experience of history, the horizons of history. We think little of those who, given the…

— David G. McCullough

“I shall speak, not of self, but of geography.”

— Pablo Neruda

“I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing.”

— Elinor Florence

“It can remind you of the bias of provincial New England, whose higher culture has been so exclusively one of books that it has…

— F.O. Matthiessen

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

— Aharon Appelfeld

Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history…

— Gulzar

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

— Van Wyck Brooks

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of…

— Yu Hua

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers…

— Claude Levi-Strauss