Quote by Ken Follett

“I lived in the Quarter for two years, but in the end I got tired of Birmingham businessmen smirking around Bourbon Street and the…

— Walker Percy

“The way I viewed it, there were lots of very ugly things in London, so, on the occasions when something beautiful with a glossy…

— Tom Cox

“From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in…

— Julia Gregson

“When I returned, not to Berlin, but to Hamburg in the midst of the fog of the beginning of winter, to the road that…

— Kathy Acker

“I don’t think anyone goes to Birmingham,”

— Heide Goody

“London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and…

— John Lanchester

“He watched the newly arrived commuters as they stepped into the carriage, pushed their way down the tube, the odours from their damp clothes…

— Amanda Sington-Williams

“Oh, London is a fine town, A very famous city, Where all the streets are paved with gold, And all the maidens pretty, --G.…

— Mark Williams

“He was very obliging, and as he handed me into a fly after superintending the removal of my boxes, I asked him whether there…

— Charles Dickens

“London was like a drug - an incredible high you never wanted to come off of. It made you feel like you could do…

— Chanel Cleeton

“We live in forgotten Victorian knife-plunging Manchester, where everything lies wherever it was left over one hundred years ago. The safe streets are dimly…

— Morrissey

“All the people are in a hurry--and sometimes they look pale under those lights, then the girls' dresses look like they're not paid off…

— Irmgard Keun