Character Quote by Wallace Stegner

Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

— Joanne Harris

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain…

— Jason Mraz

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit…

— Dar Williams

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

— Hedda Hopper

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is…

— Nicholas Sparks

One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town,…

— James Howard Kunstler

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

— Charles Baudelaire

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are,…

— Jane Jacobs

I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll…

— Mike Colter

Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They're less jaded and they're more kind of authentic and more themselves and they…

— Pauly Shore