Quote by Scott Sigler

“Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state of mind,…

— Tracy Letts

“She’d just graduated from Ann Arbor”

— Shelley Noble

“The university is located between San Francisco, Oakland and my internal wish to kill myself.”

— L.J. Shen

“If not in San Francisco, then where? Not Madison, Wisconsin, again, please, dear God.”

— Daniel Suarez

“You do realize that Nowhere is a pretty stupid name for a city.”

— Amos T. Fairchild

“You’ve lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.”

— Gao Xingjian

“I wonder what city Grover Cleveland is from. Probably Cincinnati.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else.”

— Raymond Chandler

“This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we…

— William H. Gass

“A Michigander can be every bit as prickly as a New Yorker, just not out loud. The Midwesterner’s credo: keep it to yourself.”

— James Hynes

“As a rule, almost all of them are Midwesterners...This area of the country, what are we to say of this area of the country,…

— David Foster Wallace

It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and…

— Edward P. Jones