“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does”
— Groucho Marx
“When you’re single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they’re like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed.”
— Adelle Waldman
“In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies.”
— Brandon Stanton
“My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.”
— Walter Kirn
“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”
— Walt Whitman