City Quote by Sarah Weinman

“As I've reflected back on both, I realize that my neighborhood was just like The Wire. We had the drug dealing, the police brutality,…

— Baratunde R. Thurston

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story -…

— Edward G. Robinson

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others…

— Charles Bukowski

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a…

— Tahir Shah

“Some people think the big city's a scary place? That's nothing to compare to the backwoods.”

— Elizabeth Massie

It takes about seventy-five pages for a Parker reference - from 'The Score,' specifically - to show up in Geoff Manaugh's 'A Burglar's Guide…

— Sarah Weinman

“The city never disappoints, John frequently said when we set out on an excursion, even a tiny one to the drugstore or for a…

— Rebecca Lee

“their worry that the city was too dangerous, a concern that frustrated me, immeasurably, because I knew where danger really lurked—in the woods behind…

— Roxane Gay

“It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes of…

— Edmund White

“And somewhere out there, in the river of addicts, alcoholics, wife beaters, doormats, overeducated legalized thieves, fascist police, and bitter rivalries— someone told me…

— Volatalistic Phil

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

— Eric Bogosian