Area Quote by Will Hobbs

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to…

— Guy Johnson

I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and…

— Gordon Gee

I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.

— Deny King

My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds…

— Antoine Predock

The West to me is where the landscape is,

— Lee Friedlander

“As a child I harbored a deep interest in geography. I remember that in the library of my house, immersed in my fantasies, my…

— Barbara Athanassiadis

I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and…

— Cormac McCarthy

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have…

— Mary Wesley

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

— Charles Frazier

I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia…

— David Guterson

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but…

— Elizabeth Berg