Community Quote by Jesmyn Ward

To write about a place, you have to live there.

— Jonathan Ames

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your…

— John Dufresne

I like to write about wherever I happen to be.

— Woody Guthrie

Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious,…

— Sandra Bullock

I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to…

— Chris Rose

I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject…

— Sela Ward

Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of your interaction…

— Sean Michael Wilson

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story.…

— Martin McDonagh

I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.

— Chloe Zhao

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

— Truman Capote

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

— Richard Russo