Actresses Quote by Julie Walters

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character…

— Gay Talese

I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like "Fear of Flying," where you could sort of put yourself, through…

— Charles Busch

“This is not a novel about a woman leaving home, but rather a human being finding her way back.”

— Elizabeth Berg

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

— Sloane Crosley

“Fantasy novels reveal “emergency escape routes” from reality. Romance novels dish out a banquet of Eye Candy. Otherworldly passion erupts when the two collide…

— Sarah J. Pepper

“Escaping Reality One Erotic Romance Novel At a Time.”

— S.K. Logsdon

Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and I'm curious…

— Jonathan Franzen

I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange…

— Penelope Lively

Some good stories come out of being single in New York.

— Andi Dorfman

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“Already, with the city behind them, New York didn't feel quite real. As if reality only existed where she existed.”

— Maryanne O'Hara