Career Quote by Avi Steinberg

“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces.…

— Rasmenia Massoud

“Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live,…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“In the inner city, much was made of early milestones. Later ones might never come. —”

— Matthew Desmond

“The city went on about its business. A new day would soon begin, and nothing so inconsequential as a death possessed the power to…

— R.J. Ellory

“Kindness, a lost art. Patience, even more elusive. City life in all its undesirable glory.”

— Deborah Garner

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you…

— Matt Haig

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the…

— Alice Munro

“Being here reminded him of how hard the city had been, it's unyielding surfaces, the relentless need for more and more money just to…

— Meg Wolitzer

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?”

— Geoffrey West