I loved New York in the '50s.

Growing up so close to New York City, I always loved going to the city, but I'd be disappointed because songs about New York…

— Grace VanderWaal

Oh, my God. It hit me like a tsunami then: how perfect he was for me, how he was everything I could possibly hope…

— James Patterson

“I'd just done the most important thing a person can ever do. I'd made life. At the very instant he was put into my…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

“I loved New York for this gift of endless encounters.”

— Elizabeth Strout

Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment…

— Robert Benton

I absolutely loved 'The New World.'

— James Newton Howard

I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.

— John Grant

I always loved New York.

— Anna Karina

New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on…

— Diplo

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

New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and…

— Jason Whitlock

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry,…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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

The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York,…

— Gillian Flynn

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

— Julie Kavner