Because Quote by Ronald Frame

For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was…

— Adrian Tomine

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been…

— Tom Perrotta

I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall,…

— Matthea Harvey

I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation,…

— Stephen Hunter

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 suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina,…

— Nicholas Sparks

I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the…

— Tom Perrotta

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 grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and one of the things I like to say is that one of the biggest impediments…

— Anna Quindlen

I think my becoming a writer had much to do with spending a chunk of each year sitting by myself out in a tent…

— Robert Sapolsky

When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and…

— Drake