Beverly Quote by Kent Haruf

I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, 'I hate the rich.' From what I witnessed after living there for…

— Andrew Dice Clay

A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So…

— Norm MacDonald

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

— Gore Vidal

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

— Harmon Killebrew

I have seen rural life and met all kinds of people.

— Smriti Irani

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

— Norman Mailer

There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know,…

— Walter Kirn

Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.

— Jim Rash

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the…

— Megan Abbott

“Writers used to be treated (except for the few brand name authors) as the bottom rung of the food chain.  We were interchangeable parts. …

— Bob Mayer

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day…

— Timothy Egan

There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly…

— Amy Heckerling