Victor LaValle Quotes

I actually didn't grow up in New York. I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.

That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

I split my time between a small town in New Jersey and New York City.

I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.

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

I am not really a city person.

I went to high school in Rockville Center on Long Island. It's this small, soccer-loving town that my parents moved to, from Queens, before my brother and I were born.

I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Greensboro, N.C., which is not too big, but definitely not a small town.

In Heidelberg, in Hoffenheim, there's not much going on. I am so used to being around my London estate, so when I am here I am kind of lost in a different environment, a different area.

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

I grew up in a town called Subang Jaya, and made a lot of friends from around Kuala Lumpur.

I don't want to deride London because I have such a huge affection for it, but New York lets you move on and grow up.

I'm kind of getting over the whole Manhattan life. I'm from Vancouver, and that means mountains and a lot of space.

Northern New Jersey looks like a cluster of idyllic suburbs, but each of those seemingly normal towns has a dark side that's constantly gossiped about but never publicly acknowledged. They seem to thrive on their strangenesses.

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.

I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.

I grew up in Connecticut - it was really charming, but when I was younger, all I wanted was to get out.

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

I watch all sports in some shape or form. When you grow up in a small town, sports becomes a form of you.

I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.

I was born and raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, which as you can imagine, was not the most diverse place to grow up in as a Korean American.

I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'

When you grow up around the 1 percent, it shows you a lot as a child. I got lost in my friend's house my first time ever going to it, because it was so big. I'd never seen anything like that before in my life.