Deer Quote by Matthea Harvey

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

— John Dufresne

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

— Mo Yan

I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and I used…

— Ronald Frame

I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am not a…

— Seanan McGuire

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've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of…

— Omari Hardwick

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I…

— Anne Enright

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their…

— Louise Erdrich

I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission.

— Passenger

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that.…

— Jimmy Buffett

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

— Errol Morris

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add…

— Chinua Achebe