Aspect Quote by Sarnath Banerjee

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because…

— William Trevor

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

— Zadie Smith

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

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

“To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also…

— Andrew James Pritchard

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find…

— Sara Sheridan

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

— John Dufresne

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to…

— Kenzaburo Oe

The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the…

— Doris Lessing

I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

— Matthew Desmond