Core Quote by Steve Earle

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

— Djuna Barnes

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

— Nicole Holofcener

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

— Rita Ora

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a…

— Mira Nair

New York always has a lot of creativity going on.

— Lee Ranaldo

People in New York never have time for anything.

— Marina Abramovic

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

— John Updike

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

— Anthony Trollope

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

— Kenneth Koch

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

— Fred Wilson

New York is incredible, but I never felt a part of a community.

— Keith Maitland