Bounds Quote by John Dufresne

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

I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, and what I like about that place is that there's not a strong regional affect in the…

— Rumaan Alam

Once a story is set to a particular city, language and culture, the rest just follows.

— Rockline Venkatesh

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living…

— Mike Mills

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but…

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there,…

— Joanna Trollope

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

— Anonymous

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

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 think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I…

— Jimenez Lai

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

— Mo Yan

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

— Terry Pratchett