Quotes About New Yorker

“I placed some of the DNA on the ends of my fingers and rubbed them together. The stuff was sticky. It began to dissolve on my skin. 'It's melting
like cotton candy.'
'Sure. That's the sugar in the DNA,' Smith said.
'Would it taste sweet?'
'No. DNA is an acid, and it's got salts in it. Actually, I've never tasted it.'
Later, I got some dried calf DNA. I placed a bit of the fluff on my tongue. It melted into a gluey ooze that stuck to the roof of my mouth in a blob. The blob felt slippery on my tongue, and the taste of pure DNA appeared. It had a soft taste, unsweet, rather bland, with a touch of acid and a hint of salt. Perhaps like the earth's primordial sea. It faded away.
Page 67, in Richard Preston's biographical essay on Craig Venter, "The Genome Warrior" (originally published in The New Yorker in 2000).”

— Timothy Ferris

“I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.”

— Robert Silverberg

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

— John Updike

“Leave it to a New Yorker to put a bunch of trees in one place and call it wonderful.”

— M.K. Hobson

“What, indeed, is a New Yorker? Is he Jew or Irish? Is he English or German? Is he Russian or Polish? He may be something of all these, and yet he is wholly none of them. Something has been added to him which he had not had before. he is endowed with a briskness and an invention often alien to his blood. He is quicker in his movement, less trammeled in his judgement ... The change he undergoes is unmistakeable, New York, indeed, resembles a magic cauldron. Those who are cast into it are born again.”

— Charles Whibley

“Have so many merry little pots bubbling away in the fire of my enthusiasm: Myron, future trips, modern poetry, Yeats, Sitwell, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, villanelles, maybe Mlle, maybe The New Yorker or The Atlantic (poems sent out make blind hope spring eternal-even if rejections are immanent), spring: biking, breathing, sunning, tanning. All so lovely and potential.”

— Sylvia Plath

“I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.”

— Pete Hamill

“In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams - really a top, top artist that the 'New Yorker' was lucky to find and employ.”

— Peter Beard

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

— Anthony Weiner

“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.”

— Ed Koch

“A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.”

— R.L. Stine

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

— Armand Assante

“If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.”

— George Pataki

“I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.”

— Sherri Shepherd

“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.”

— Sigourney Weaver

“I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.”

— Sloane Crosley

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

— Susan Sarandon

“One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan

“Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.”

— Corey Stoll

“The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.”

— James Balog

“I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things.”

— Mark O'Donnell

“New Jersey. If there's anyone more purely foolish than a New Yorker, it's a fellow from New Jersey.”

— Stephen King

“Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.”

— Trevor Moore

“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.”

— Jennifer Weiner

“Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.”

— David Sedaris

“I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'”

— Paul Engle

“All the benefit that a New Yorker gets out of Kansas is no more than what he might get out of Saskatchewan, the Argentine pampas, of Siberia. But New York to a Kansan is not only a place where he may get drunk, look at dirty shows and buy bogus antiques; it is also a place where he may enforce his dunghill ideas upon his betters.”

— H.L. Mencken

“My model, such as it is, is a mentorship model, which is to say that I care personally, and I involve myself personally/emotionally with the work of each student, and I try to make it such that they want to reach for more, do better, risk more, try new things, abandon limited objectives, individuate, and so on. For me it is personal, to the best of my ability, and it is about making more of the writer and of the writer's task in each case. I also think it's possible to do this, to teach in this way, in a classroom free of rancor and backbiting and competitive jostling. So: my class should be a place of peace, a place where anything is possible, where the code of realism is in disrepute, and the worst thing you can say, the absolutely verboten thing, is the phrase: The New Yorker.”

— Rick Moody

“I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!”

— Zoe McLellan

“When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.”

— Al Franken

“'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'”

— Gillian Jacobs

“I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.”

— Alan Dershowitz

“I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'”

— J. Cole

“Let's say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he's the best.”

— Paul Dano

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

— Joan Collins

“I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.”

— Jamaica Kincaid

“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.”

— Carl Paladino

“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.'”

— David Sedaris

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

— David Sedaris

“I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker ... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.”

— Vin Diesel

“I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.”

— Adrian Tomine

“I would kind of, you know, go stand next to some unlucky guy and say eventually, Hi, I'm George. You know, I'm with The New Yorker. I'm a liberal. I'm somewhat left of Gandhi. Do you want to talk? And, you know, they always did.”

— George Saunders

“Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker ... [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?”

— Shirley Jackson

“My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.”

— Brian Setzer

“A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think.”

— Jose Antonio Vargas

“Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, Humour studies would that be, sir?”

— Keith Waterhouse

“Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit at a desk all day, and then come to sit at another desk. Also, it helps to abandon hope. If I sit at my computer, determined to write a New Yorker story I won't get beyond the first sentence. It's better to put no pressure on it. What would happen if I followed the previous sentence with this one, I'll think. If the eighth draft is torture, the first should be fun. At least if you're writing humor.”

— David Sedaris

“Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.”

— James Purdy

“Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.”

— Bob Dylan

“I always have issues. I'm a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust - you adopt it from being a New Yorker. I think trust is something that comes from the gut. I don't think it's anything specific. I don't think it's anything tangible.”

— Vin Diesel