Tana French Quotes

I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

Even before I was in New York, I couldn't even count how many places I lived in L.A. Definitely over 10.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

During the six years I spent writing my novel 'The Incarnations,' I lived in seven cities in four countries. I moved in and out of 17 different houses and flats in Beijing, Seoul, Colorado, Boston, Leeds, Washington D.C., London and Shenzhen.

I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me wherever I go.

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

I have worked in so many countries over the years that I must have moved house about 20 times.

I'm an army brat - so I grew up traveling every two to four years.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

I was born in Chicago. I moved to Detroit until I was six and moved to Oakland at that point. And then we had a couple years in Stockton and Pasadena. And by the time I was 13, I was back in Oakland.

By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries.

My father was a coach, so there was a lot of moving around, not having a base.

I had moved around my whole life. That was the one thing that was always so hard.