Cities Quote by Frank Norris

Once a story is set to a particular city, language and culture, the rest just follows.

— Rockline Venkatesh

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

— Kate Forsyth

“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

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

— Shoojit Sircar

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives…

— Italo Calvino

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

— Nigel Evans

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

— Norton Juster

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea…

— Jonah Lehrer

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for…

— Eudora Welty

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

— Michael Ondaatje

To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to…

— Reinaldo Arenas

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with…

— China Mieville