Donna Tartt Quotes

I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.

I lived in Washington longer than I have lived anywhere else, so it's considered home, even though I moved back to California.

no person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places.

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

New York will always be a part of me no matter where I go.

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

My whole family were from the East End, but they moved away when I was a child. They still cannot get their heads around the fact that I ran back to London as soon as I could, when I was 21.

It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory

I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.

I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.

Although I don't know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

For me, London is and always will be home.

The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since I was a little boy.

The Garden State will never leave me.

St. Louis has always been special to me.

Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.