If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast.
I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.
I'm totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I'm not a nice L.A. person.
I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.
New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.
I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.