American west Quote by Edward Abbey

People used to say I'm regional, but I'm not... We all have the same human condition.

— Ron White

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great…

— Tom Barbash

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

— Richard Ford

Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing…

— Leigh Michaels

I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire.

— Sissy Spacek

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

— Robert Morgan

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

— Mo Yan

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

— Rumi

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

— Paul Rudd

I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially…

— Taryn Manning

I'm from the Midwest.

— Craig Kilborn

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew…

— Tom Barbash