New yorker Quotes · Page 4

In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from 'The New Yorker,' 'New York Times' editorial page, or 'The Washington Post.'

— Tucker Carlson

“Leave it to a New Yorker to put a bunch of trees in one place and call it wonderful.”

— M.K. Hobson

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

— John Updike

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

— Daniel Alarcon

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small…

— Brendan Gill

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

— Alan Dershowitz

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to…

— Rula Jebreal

I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't…

— Alex Gibney

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable…

— Rich Lowry

“Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or…

— Anonymous

David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do…

— Kevin Sessums

I've made so many films in New York. There was an assumption I think a lot of people had that I am…

— Greta Gerwig

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a…

— Garry Winogrand

I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't…

— Sloane Crosley

It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so much of the cultural zeitgeist. It's truly…

— Denis O'Hare

The Internet and blogging made writing somewhat more solitary and more splintered. It removes the whole sense of the magazine as an…

— James Wolcott

If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness,…

— Tony Kushner

“Stewart, with the help of his incredibly astute staff, was combining reporting with commentary, pointing a finger at stupidity and hollowness, and…

— Chris Smith

“And so each of the passersby on this corner, every scruffy, oversize, undersize, weird, fat, or bony or limping or muttering or…

— E.L. Doctorow

Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of…

— Nat Hentoff

I think that anyone who likes writing views 'The New Yorker' as the, you know, pinnacle of the publishing world. If you…

— Lauren Weisberger

'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.

— Robert Mankoff

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

— Kevin Sessums

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least…

— Mark O'Donnell

I'm always thinking about how what I'm doing is affecting the people around me. As a New Yorker, you have to be…

— Bobby Berk

I used to never miss the 'New Yorker' or 'New York.' Now I never bother.

— Dan Jenkins

“The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.”

— Alison Bechdel

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

— David Bowie

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I…

— John Catsimatidis

One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a…

— David Grann

Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very…

— David Remnick

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

— Greg Gutfeld

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.

— Robert Mankoff

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which…

— Valorie Curry

I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each…

— George Packer

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

— Pete Hamill

“If we accept the unacceptable today, what's the outlook for tomorrow going to be?”

— George Booth