The idea of place has always been a concern for me because I place place about as high as you can go into the archives on the furious hunt for bad grammer. Place has to be higher on the list because whatever your story is, it takes place in a setting that is always a mistake to discount. Because place tells its own story. It has its own voice. And it goes where it wants to go. Without place, you have no story. Even the story that seems like no place – has one – and that is its story, no place, and the twist is that this is often a starting point for enormous discovery. – Tim Barrus