Always Quote by Walter Kirn

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

— Ron Rash

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important…

— Lawrence Osborne

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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

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

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love…

— Louise Erdrich

All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that is the…

— Francesca Gregorini

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'

— Gore Vidal

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

— Herman Melville

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

— Edna O'Brien

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that.…

— Jimmy Buffett

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any…

— Sara Sheridan