Architecture Quote by Marcus Sakey

“the concept of the city is significant in this period because the cities were considered to have developed for the gods.”

— Tammi J. Schneider

“What was it about this city, with its endless possibilities, that elicited such limited routines?”

— Hugh Howey

“Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live,…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“He had a theory about it. It happened, and re-happened, because it was a city uninterested in history. Strange things occurred precisely because there…

— Mccann Colum

“Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's…

— Olivia Sudjic

“villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.”

— Patrick Ness

“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models.…

— Cristina Martin

“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“Being here reminded him of how hard the city had been, it's unyielding surfaces, the relentless need for more and more money just to…

— Meg Wolitzer

“the atmosphere of the town was an artificial creation whose existence relied on the subtle attentions of its inhabitants.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas, gossips and…

— Jaime Allison Parker

“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…

— Sheridan Hay