Jim Crace Quotes

I grew up in New York.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.

I grew up in Southern California, Simi Valley. I've lived in the same house all my life.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

I grew up in Carville, Louisiana.

Only people who live outside cities realize the size of them. London turns out to be huge; there are great swaths, vast panoramas, a whole diaspora I'd never imagined. The place I live in tends to be manageably small, a few familiar journeys and destinations.

When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like a grey area between rural and suburban, so there were a lot of forests and parks.

I grew up in the small town of Haywards Heath, south of London.

I have lived in South Delhi amidst greenery.

I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Not everybody has the chance to grow up on an island.

I didn't actually grow up in London.

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

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

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

I grew up in the Bronx.

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.