Valerie Azlynn Quotes

Living in L.A., it's such a big huge place and there's so much of it. It's so much fun to be in Chinatown, or Downtown L.A. I was in Lynnwood, I was in Huntington Beach. I was in Venice. It's an incredible place.

I have sort of a life in Los Angeles.

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.

I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

I like to visit L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there.

I love L.A. I'd move there tomorrow if I could.

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment.

I live in L.A., I grew up here, it's not that crazy for me because it's L.A., you know?

I've never lived in Los Angeles. I've always lived 30 miles away in Long Beach.

I live in Chicago, but my work is always in New York or L.A., so I always have to travel for my job.

I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square!

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years.