Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!

I like any place that isn't here.

The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

I don't live anywhere. I have always dreamed of moving out of my country because Sweden is boring.

My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

There are times when you wish you were somewhere else, and someone else.

There is something very appealing about moving to a faraway place.

I wanted to escape the drudgery of a small town existence. Any place bigger than Gwalior was fine. I took the first train to Delhi because that was the only fare I could afford.

I grew up in Connecticut - it was really charming, but when I was younger, all I wanted was to get out.

I just want to get as far away from Indiana as possible.