John Burnside Quotes

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ads in my old hometown. But it's not even a fantasy. My parents are both gone. The world I left doesn't exist anymore. Neither does the person I was.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

I love creating that community and writing about that place, because I think, in some ways, Bois Sauvage is like the DeLisle of my past; it's like the DeLisle of the '80s that I can never return to. So in some ways, when I write about Bois Sauvage, I'm writing about a home that I've lost.

It always just feels good going back home. It feels like nothing has changed. Seeing my room, the views. It, like, grounds you.

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

Every time I go to Veracruz, I feel like, OK, I am back. When my feet go to the ground on the earth, I think, 'This is me, this is home, these are my roots, and now I can go and travel again to wherever you want me to go.'

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

I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

For me, London is and always will be home.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

When memories fade, can one ever really return home?

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

I wrote the script to 'Lady Bird,' and it really came out of a desire to make a project about home - like, what the meaning of home is, and place. I knew Sacramento very well, obviously, growing up there, and I felt like the right way to tell a story of a place was through a person who's about to leave it.

Everybody kind of feels something for where they grew up, where they came from.

I miss my friends in London, and I really miss New York. But I also miss the stability of staying in one place and being able to just open a drawer if you've run out of sticky tape and chuck a new roll in the holder.