Lynn Flewelling Quotes

I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.

I grew up in Dutch Harbor, Alaska - a place so tiny, we got only one channel on TV. The high school and middle school had 50 kids total!

I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.

When I was a kid growing up, I lived in a little rural village called Woolton Hill, and the nearest town was Newbury. No bands played anywhere near us, so as much as I wanted to be on the grid and in the loop, I never was.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.

I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet, with an amazing view - can't see a pylon, can't see a road. Blockbuster's an event in our house, when the little blue envelope comes in.

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

I was the last person that any of my friends would have pictured moving to the boonies.

I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.

I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.

I went to a tiny little high school... I'd make my foray into Calgary if I wanted to see a movie or do something crazy.

I live on an island, and it's difficult to find.

I grew up in a town with just under three hundred people in Western Australia. When you think about being six hours outside the second most isolated city in the world, which is Perth, and then you think about the town that I'm from, which is called Southern Cross, acting is not a possibility.

I joke that I'm in the market for a cabin in the woods, and, at some point, I won't be joking anymore.

My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.

I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.

Northern Wisconsin, where I'm from, is so ridiculously rural.

I grew up in a really rural area in Maryland.

Coming from a small town of Mexico, Missouri, we got 11,000 people. Never seen a celebrity.

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.