Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a…

I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!

— Simon Mawer

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has…

— Adam Johnson

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good…

— Patrick deWitt

“Writing is a way of remaking the world, both for the writer and reader.”

— Mark Rubinstein

I come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those…

— Roisin Conaty

“Even after a thousand pages we don’t want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live…

— Stephen King

No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner world,…

— Anonymous

“I love entering the private world that each writer gives us through their books”

— MBarreto Condado

I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center…

— Valeria Luiselli

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to…

— Stephen King

I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that.

— Max Joseph

I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the…

— Pierce Brosnan

I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the…

— Jacob K. Javits

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all…

— Jonathan Dee

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

— Greta Gerwig