21st century Quote by James Frey

I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for example, that…

— Matthew Specktor

LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western…

— Moby

I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and…

— Curtis Hanson

I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right…

— Hedi Slimane

Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America.

— Michael Light

I've also never written anything really in LA.

— Paul Beatty

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I…

— Michael Connelly

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out…

— Henry Miller

I am starting to like LA, but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird…

— Sloane Crosley

The city [ LA] is kind of going through an interesting transition; sort of renaissance time where there is so much going on here.…

— Tamara Mellon

I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of…

— Dan Gilroy