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“New Yorkers love the bigness- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Tonight, I feel small. An entire night in the city seems to be too much for me, too immense for me to get lost… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Today, everything about New York leaves me feeling like I’m competing for space, and just barely hanging on.” — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
“The trick of enjoying New York is not to be so busy grinding your way to the center of the earth that you fail… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“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 I did my artistic "growing up" while working in this crazy, wonderful city back in my twenties. Although I love the quieter, slower, nature-rich life I live now in the sheep-dotted hills of Devon, there are… — Terri Windling Copy Share
“Objectively, she knew she was in better shape than most, but that was the thing about New York: no matter how much money you… — Laura Hemphill Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“What makes this city different is that nobody expects to be in one place for ten minutes. Everybody moves all the time. Seven nameless men own everything and move us around on a board. People are swept out into the streets because the owners need the space. Then they are swept off the streets because someone owns the air they… — Don DeLillo Copy Share
“Everyone loves New York City for all these different reasons. The culture. The mix of people. The pace. The food. But for me, it's… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Manhattan can act as a giant suction cup, sucking you into its folds. The city breeds no wimps and makes no apologies.” — Kate Rockland Copy Share Image
Even today, the bigger the city, the better. That's why I live in New York. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
“I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“You are more ready and able to grasp at opportunity when your hands are empty.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Occupation: Writer Occupational Hazard: Carpel tunnel Solution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping Perspective: I've decided my wrist guards… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British accent is… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“10. Calories count in New York City. The Big Apple recently adopted a law that requires fast-food restaurants with at least fifteen outlets in… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York City. We used to diss Long Island and Jersey. Every big city has its own suburb like that. — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
Anything that I'm doing I think I always come at it from an outsider perspective. The first like real front page story that I had for the Times was about how after decades of battles over public restrooms in New York City, effectively chain stores had become the public restroom of choice for New Yorkers, it's sort of a silly… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share