A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception…

You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.

— Chris Diamantopoulos

I also have my backpack of the tried-and-true, and because it is new to [my students], it becomes fresh to me again as well.

— Dorianne Laux

What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.

— William Sargant

Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.

— Nat Hentoff

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because…

— Nat Hentoff

Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and…

— Randall Jarrell

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

— Valorie Curry

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

— Laurie Anderson

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

— Sloane Crosley

'All In' is like the Giants motto, so I kind of took that, and I kind of used New York as the backdrop -…

— Travie McCoy

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York…

— James Purdy

A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

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

— Rula Jebreal

My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when…

— Nat Hentoff

Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier…

— Corey Stoll