Early Quote by Justin Cartwright

“farmhouses and shacks, the families settling”

— Colson Whitehead

I grew up in the countryside.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I grew up in the small German village of Bosingen, which is located between Black Forest and the state capital of Stuttgart. And when…

— Joshua Kimmich

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

— Cornelia Funke

“I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a…

— Paul Collins

I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the foothills to…

— Ewan McGregor

“The frantumaglia is an unstable landscape, an infinite aerial or aquatic mass of debris that appears to the I, brutally, as its true and…

— Elena Ferrante

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline…

— Bong Joon-ho

I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two thousand people,…

— Kevin A. Ford

“The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within…

— Mark Kurlansky

We did have a beautiful cottage in the Lake District which we spent lots of time in when I was younger.

— Phoebe Dynevor

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

— John Sandford