City Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“It may have seemed like an insane thing to do at the time, but somehow...staying in New York would have been even crazier.”

— Liz Tuccillo

“Dressed that way, he looked almost like any other New Yorker. It was only he nervous shifting of his eyes that hinted at discomfort,…

— Heidi Heilig

“He didn't dislike New York with the simple diffidence of a small-town kid or the tragic ignorance of a yokel--he hated it with what…

— Barry Lyga

“I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery…

— Sylvia Plath

“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to…

— Paul Auster

“New York, he supposed, was home—the city of luxury and mystery, of preposterous hopes and exotic dreams.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“...he was reluctant to return to New York, a town less supportive of his sort of art.”

— Lindsay Pollock

“I told him I had no use for introspection and navel-gazing. I was probably one of the few New Yorkers who had never been…

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

“As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.”

— Marian Keyes

“I had never seen anything like New York, and its newness held the promise of my future: dense with the experience I craved -…

— Siri Hustvedt

“New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him…

— Nora Roberts

“He had a theory about it. It happened, and re-happened, because it was a city uninterested in history. Strange things occurred precisely because there…

— Mccann Colum