Little Towns – Quotes

In my little town,

In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village – and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four. Elie Wiesel

At sunset we are

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova. Edward Burnett Tylor

I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you’ve come from – these were from small towns – would you say, I’m a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they’d think I didn’t … Read more

I don\’t really care

I don’t really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There’s such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody’s building this little town to speak in symbolism. Franka Potente

There are three necessary

There are three necessary elements in a story – exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as \”John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X\”; development as \”One day Mrs Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man\”; and drama as \”You will do nothing of the … Read more

Jewish Christmas\’ – that\’s

Jewish Christmas’ – that’s what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through … Read more

This is a dream

This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name. Faith Popcorn

I get all my

I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the … Read more

When I used to

When I used to drive on the road from L. A., one time in Arizona we went off-road to see what weird little towns are around. Loved Bisbee. Doug Stanhope

I was born and

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain’t my world. Dick Gregory