Fired Quote by Nat Hentoff

After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that 'Bill Shawn will stay here…

— Nat Hentoff

Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of the city…

— Nat Hentoff

My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when…

— Nat Hentoff

If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just…

— Nat Hentoff

Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.

— 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

[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was…

— Nat Hentoff

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

— David Sedaris

I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

— Sloane Crosley

'All In' is like the Giants motto, so I kind of took that, and I kind of used New York as the backdrop -…

— Travie McCoy

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York…

— James Purdy

A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here,…

— Rula Jebreal

A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla!

— Heather Thomson

Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier…

— Corey Stoll