City Quote by Derek Walcott Download Open image “Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.” — Derek Walcott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare City Heaven New World Writer Writing
There's something about New York. You can get a nice feeling of belonging as a writer here. It's probably the best city on Earth… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Heaven is more than a destination; it is a motivation. Knowing that we shall dwell in the heavenly city ought to make a difference… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to. — Tony Earley Copy Share Image
A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Why is heaven called a city? Because it is a place of fellowship where men meet one another!”–1893, Sermon 2291” — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here—… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.” — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out… — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
In my first 100 days as Ontario's Minister of Transportation, I found a willing municipal partner in the City of Toronto that shares our… — Caroline Mulroney Copy Share Image
Even after my family moved West, I would come back to Long Island as a teenager, stay with aunts and go to the city… — Everlast Copy Share Image
We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
We have an obligation at the local level to do everything we can with the resources we have. And we do those things. But… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
