Brooklyn Quote by Betty Smith

“All the things that happened there just couldn’t happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it…

— Betty Smith

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

— Libba Bray

“We undid a button, turned out the light, and in that narrow bed we built the great city - ... until the sun rose…

— D. Nurske

“All she’d notice was that some things were strange because they reminded her of Brooklyn and that other things were strange because they were…

— Betty Smith

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to…

— Betty Smith

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the…

— Joan Didion

'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.

— Jacqueline Woodson

The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down in this…

— Kelly Cutrone

I've always had a dream about New York. New York is an island... those bridges... the skyline... the dynamism.

— Santiago Calatrava

A wet dream in the mind of New York.

— Erica Jong

With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned the volume…

— Nick Hornby

I dreamed my whole life of New York being my home.

— Annaleigh Ashford