Cafes Quote by Fannie Flagg

Fried Green Tomatoes' is the first time I got to play a character with some depth and some complexity.

— Nick Searcy

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

— Herman Melville

Ive seen Fried Green Tomatoes too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

— Liam James

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write…

— Karin Fossum

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

— Tea Obreht

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is…

— Nicholas Sparks

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

— Wallace Stegner

The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.

— Fiona Barton

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

— Joanne Harris

I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town?…

— Debra Granik

The Kitchen, which my wife and I opened with our friend and amazing chef Hugo Matheson, was quickly recognized as the pioneer in 'green'…

— Kimbal Musk

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a…

— Tahir Shah