Internet Quote by Gillian Flynn

“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that fiction, we…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.”

— Pete Hamill

“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life…

— Malcolm Cowley

“You wanna know what’s happening to New York?” he asked. “I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store, you look…

— Donald E. Westlake

“It's the whole country that makes or breaks a thing like this. New York has very little to do with it. Now if it…

— William Dean Howells

“In New York—the New York of her own time, at least—they would have been objects of scorn and anger, the butt of every idiot’s…

— Stephen King

“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

“New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.”

— Elizabeth Winder

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

The thing about New York stories that many storytellers often forget is that they can take place anywhere in the world. That's because for…

— Cord Jefferson

“The press in New York has tended to favor New Society in every period, and to take it seriously, if only because it provides…

— Tom Wolfe