Bottles Quote by John Updike

“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was…

— Gillian Flynn

“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life…

— Malcolm Cowley

I'm not a Hemingway scholar, so I've come across some surprises.

— Jack Hemingway

“New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.”

— Elizabeth Winder

“In reality, Hemingway didn't appeal to plumbers or roofers who read books; he was a rich man's writer, with the vocabulary and hunting instinct…

— Gerald Hausman

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

— A. E. Hotchner

“New York is a city built upon the cannibalized remains of its own past, constantly changing, constantly the same.”

— Seanan McGuire

“But even now, a full century after he wrote his first school poem, scratched out in startlingly plain words on onion skin paper with…

— Clancy Sigal

“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that fiction, we…

— Siri Hustvedt

“We thought of [New York] as a free city, like one of those storied prewar tropical nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and…

— Lucy Sante

“Hemingway is there in Finca Vigía. Find out what he thinks of Castro. He’s a man dedicated to his art and has an equivalent…

— Paul Vidich

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois suburban middle…

— Junot Díaz