I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.

I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!

Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

I grew up in a really small town: LaGrange, Georgia. There weren't a lot of creative outlets there, so I did local castings.

I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very casual.