Accepted Quote by George Saunders

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

— Diane Mott Davidson

'Royal Beatings' was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to 'The New Yorker' in…

— Alice Munro

I'm a New York story.

— Steve Madden

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

— Candace Bushnell

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

— Daniel Alarcon

My first newspaper job was a high school reporter for the 'New York Daily News.'

— Stephen A. Smith

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

— Jenny Holzer

My story is the story of the Bronx, a story of overcoming.

— Ritchie Torres

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

— Karen Russell

The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar…

— Debra Dean

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

— Sara Paretsky