Cities Quote by John Cheever

“These stories at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light,…

— John Cheever

The thing about New York stories that many storytellers often forget is that they can take place anywhere in the world. That's because for…

— Cord Jefferson

Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.

— Sophie Blackall

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the…

— Bill Dixon

In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and…

— J. Cole

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom…

— Michael Koryta

“I heard a tune from Aaron Neville floating out of someone's window on the other end of the street. I could tell it was…

— Margot Berwin

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Suddenly I found myself on Times Square. I had traveled eight thousand miles around the American continent and I was back on Times Square;…

— Jack Kerouac

When I was in New York working for [Frederick] Kiesler, at night I listened to Jean Shephard who lasted from 1957 until 1976 and…

— Paul Laffoley

“We always just miss New York. I watched it with this neighborhood. When I moved here everyone was mourning SoHo of the seventies, Tribeca…

— Stephanie Danler

When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where…

— Moby