New yorkers Quote by Gregory Benford

“He missed the Midwest... Northern California was impractically beautiful. Everywhere you looked there were trees and streams, waterfalls, mountains, the ocean... There was nowhere…

— Rainbow Rowell

“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

“The huge sadness of the northern plains rolled down on him and There was some open space between what he knew and what he…

— Annie Proulx

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The South is different from anywhere else on earth. Every time I returned, it seemed it was the beginning of my greatest story, like…

— Victoria Benton Frank

“He went to America, months ago! America! Yes - America. Is that east or west? West. People travel east, my boy - from the…

— Anonymous

“New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far from New York), perhaps because…

— Terri Windling

“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

“His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.”

— Raymond Chandler

“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

“Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet…

— Amor Towles

“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