Cities Quote by Eric Bogosian

The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on…

— James Forman, Jr

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

— Colman Domingo

I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

— Raymond Chandler

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

— Alastair Reynolds

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

— Donald Barthelme

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

— Frank Norris

I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

— Helena Christensen

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

— Jackie Collins

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

— Mark Strand

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say…

— Eric Bogosian