Alex Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around…

— Victoria Chang

In the past, I've felt like an outsider, with New York the center of everything literary, but right now, there are new opportunities being…

— Jesmyn Ward

There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.

— Adrian Dunbar

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

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

— Jami Attenberg

The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and…

— Ishmael Reed

We had spent a lot of time in London [with Lucas Goodman], which has been amazing, but also it was kind of a homecoming…

— Jillian Hervey

I always write well in New York.

— David Bowie

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

— Groucho Marx

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

— Jay McInerney

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I…

— Anne Beatts