Midwestern Identity Quotes

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.

Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.

I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.