Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

My grandfather lived in New England all his life and was a Vermonter.

I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas.

I tell people I live in Atlanta. Georgia's outside of Atlanta, absolutely. But my family's from the very rural south. My family's from Tuskegee, Alabama. And they're from Eatonton, Georgia. Places like Greenwood, Georgia, my family is from... so I've seen it both ways.

I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.

I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.

I grew up in a small town.

I'm from a part of Florida that is very close to Georgia in the panhandle area. I have a very colorful Southern family.

At heart, I am a country girl who grew up in Devon.

Well, you know, my grandmother actually grew up, you know, her whole family, my mom's family outside of Parkersburg, West Virginia.

I'm from a small town - Niagara, outside of Toronto. When I was a kid, I thought it was really boring, but it ended up being a big blessing because I got to know myself at a young age.

I grew up in the Midwest. I grew up in South Dakota.

I had family in Carolina who were very hood and talked differently in this sort of Southern cadence.

I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that I'm from Haslemere.