Being there Quote by A. E. Hotchner

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

— Jim Harrison

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“He didn't dislike New York with the simple diffidence of a small-town kid or the tragic ignorance of a yokel--he hated it with what…

— Barry Lyga

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around…

— Victoria Chang

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from…

— Garrison Keillor

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

— Michael Arad

“I had never seen anything like New York, and its newness held the promise of my future: dense with the experience I craved -…

— Siri Hustvedt

“By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if…

— E B White

“west. He liked the mild climate, the Sierras making it something like Colorado with a seashore. It took him several years to overcome the…

— Gregory Benford

“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to…

— Paul Auster

“New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far from New York), perhaps because…

— Terri Windling

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much.…

— Clive Owen