Around Quote by Louise Erdrich

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that…

— Lee Smith

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

You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I…

— Daniel H. Wilson

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

— Mo Yan

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

— Tim Blake Nelson

For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're…

— Paulo Coelho

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

— Leonard Cohen

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested…

— Eric Brown

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell you where…

— Danielle Bregoli

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them…

— Per Petterson

I like to write about stories and life experiences of me, the people around us, and just the things I see on the telly…

— Sam Fender