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I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.