Bills Quote by Nat Hentoff

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because…

— Nat Hentoff

Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind…

— David Remnick

I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always…

— Kevin Sessums

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

— James Dickey

It was something that hopefully sparked a few people to do similar things down the road and will keep a certain flavor of magazine…

— John Buffalo Mailer

I'm obsessed with 'New York' magazine.

— Jennifer Hyman

In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all the knowledge…

— Louise Wilson

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk…

— Michael Chabon

“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

'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.

— Robert Mankoff

The Internet and blogging made writing somewhat more solitary and more splintered. It removes the whole sense of the magazine as an organism. A…

— James Wolcott

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news.…

— William Klein