Yorker Quotes

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

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

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.

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

I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.

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.

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.

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

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

I'm a New Yorker, you know.

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

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

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

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

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.