Art Quote by Laurie Anderson

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

— Laurie Anderson

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like…

— Sloane Crosley

The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ…

— John Lahr

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

— Jami Attenberg

New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think…

— Paloma Elsesser

In the past, I've felt like an outsider, with New York the center of everything literary, but right now, there are new opportunities being…

— Jesmyn Ward

I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never…

— Bill Bradley

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

— David Sedaris

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I combine aspects of fashion, comedy, sculpture, video, painting all kind of in one multimedia sort of curriculum. New York is what gave me…

— Chloe Wise

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke