Chicago Quote by Nelson Algren

“And the city itself was just a glow on the dark earth...”

— Monica Ali

“It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and darkness here, even…

— K.J. Wignall

“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.”

— Epictetus

“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

“This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“From my own novel. Because in the City, you know there is nothing else, it is a place without roads, without real people, without…

— Ben Farmer

“There were so many dead their spirits could no longer be contained in the darkness, and, like deer, their population had spilled over into…

— Daniel Wallace

“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes”

— Orhan Pamuk

“There are regular towns and irregular towns, there are wounded towns and sober towns and fiercely remembered towns, there are useless, but passionate towns…

— Anne Carson

“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

“I have changed refuge so often, in the course of my rout, that now I can't tell between dens and ruins. But there was…

— Samuel Beckett

“When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what…

— John Wyndham