Big Quote by Michael Chabon

When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.

— Tina Brown

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

— Daniel Libeskind

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.…

— John Updike

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for…

— Frankie Cosmos

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

— Robert T. Bakker

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

— Ryan McGinley

“ "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen with innocent eyes. It doesn't matter…

— Pete Hamill

Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular, this moment…

— Danzy Senna

I didn't have to do that much research to present a post-apocalyptic New York because I basically grew up in that New York. That…

— Colson Whitehead

The main thing I like about New Yorkers is that they understand that their lives are a relentless circus of horrors, ending in death.…

— Kyle Baker

“The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to experience here,…

— Sari Botton

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone…

— Frankie Cosmos