Books Quote by Rachel Kushner

Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to…

— Dale Peck

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around…

— Victoria Chang

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

— Keren Ann

You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing about art,…

— Rachel Kushner

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

— James M. Cain

It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in…

— H. L. Mencken

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book…

— Mary H.K. Choi

New York is great for writers insofar as you can pay someone to bring you food, to take your washing out and bring it…

— Nick Laird

I always write well in New York.

— David Bowie

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

There's something about New York. You can get a nice feeling of belonging as a writer here. It's probably the best city on Earth…

— Geoff Dyer