Books Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

— Gwen Cooper

Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to…

— Dale Peck

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

— Groucho Marx

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.…

— John Updike

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

— Keren Ann

I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape.

— Steven Rinella

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone…

— Frankie Cosmos

Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down…

— Rachel Kushner

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons…

— Elizabeth Strout

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 seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book…

— Mary H.K. Choi