Been Quote by Edmund White

It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't…

— Oscar Hijuelos

New York is like a melting pot: so many different people, so many different cultures.

— Sue Bird

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.

— Mitali Perkins

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

— Daniel Libeskind

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois suburban middle…

— Junot Díaz

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

— Phil Ramone

“that was New York for you, always changing. New groups of people came in on a daily basis. Some people liked it, some people…

— Heather Graham

“How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide…

— Stephen Birmingham

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

— Colson Whitehead

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

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

— Groucho Marx

The culture of New York is just impossible to replicate. Its such an incredible feeling to be walking on the streets of New York.…

— Max Schneider