Eastern Quote by Joan Didion

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a…

— Nadine Gordimer

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

— Christopher Dodd

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world…

— William J. Clinton

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

— Edward Said

I'm looking at my window right now and it's a perfect blue sky. And if you ask people about Sept. 11, the one thing…

— Haroon Moghul

Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?

— Alan Jackson

“Growing up in upstate New York, one of the grayest parts of the U.S., meant whole weeks might pass with no more than a…

— Rachel Friedman

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened…

— Michael Mandelbaum

For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of…

— Deepak Chopra

We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.

— Amos Oz

September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew…

— Randy Forbes

September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The…

— Martin Amis