Light Quote by Jia Pingwa

“There is something truly extraordinary about a tropically-designed city when viewed in overcast light. The neon paints that swarm the buildings maintain their luminosity…

— Mynah K

Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial…

— Virginia Postrel

“We are entering the Dark Ages, my friend, but this time there will be lots of neon, and screen savers, and street lighting.”

— Edward St. Aubyn

“The streets were awash with blues and grays – suspended in the air, bouncing off buildings, reflecting off car windows – as Brooklyn neared nighttime.”

— Abby Slovin

“In their simplicity and directness [neon signage is] a kind of urban iconography with which we can identify on many levels. — Rudi Stern”

— Philip Di Lemme

“The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown…

— Mary Stewart

“The slick, chin-high tops of cars made an undulating surface that stretched away into the darkness in all directions; beneath it stood endless shadowy…

— Richard Yates

“Everything seemed bright and different after so long in the darkness. Even though most of the businesses were closed, there was one neon sign…

— Sarah Dessen

“As the day light left the city that night, the streetlamps were not up to anything like their usual candle-power. It was difficult to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“I was nineteen at the time, prowling the streets and alleys with my usual supply of hot dogs, the street lights with their foggy…

— Fynn

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

— Stephen King

“Water began to drip steadily through the dormer window. Outside, in the treacherous city, a thaw had come, giving the streets the unreliable consistency…

— Salman Rushdie