Ballads Quote by Wallace Stegner

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know…

— William Zinsser

“The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the object of a witch-hunt,…

— Michel de Certeau

To me a story is a story...I dont even think about where it might belong until long after its written.

— Stephenie Meyer

One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living…

— Mike Mills

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for…

— Eudora Welty

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

— Katherine Paterson

Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.

— Neil Gaiman

“But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be given to…

— Frances Mayes

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think…

— Tea Obreht

Every place has a story - or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope…

— Caterina Fake

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary…

— Italo Calvino