Independent Quote by Jenny Holzer

My three years in Manhattan were sort of my university years. I was learning by myself, and it was a tough time. That's when…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the…

— Rebecca Serle

I moved to New York in 1989 and went to study at NYU.

— James Murphy

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

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical,…

— Iris Chang

I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year,…

— Harmony Korine

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

— Charles Best

I was a librarian in a city school.

— Luke Harper

In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the…

— Aleksandra Mir

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

— Charles J. Shields

I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending…

— Edward Rutherfurd