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“Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.”

Hands Cities New York Grew Reader Paper Grew Up My Family Sacred Seven Newspapers New York City

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.”

Ifs Trying Littles Enough Stuff Pieces Feet New York Paper Good Enough Sticky Old New York

Book:41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

Source: 41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

“Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.”

Years Firsts Made Done Able New York Painting Paper Six Moved Seven I Realized Destroyed Default

Author:David Salle

“The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.”

Country House White New York Paper Journalism White House Papers Pennies

Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“[On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.”

Games Social Party Watches New York Paper Charity Dinner Devoted Volunteer Dolls Breakdown One Woman Dinner Party Pitiful Arranging Socialites Volunteer Work

Author:Margaret Case Harriman

“Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.”

Bigs Cities Modern Missing New York Paper News Accounts Notes Posts Opera Papers Modern Life Residents Sellers Daily News

Author:Dave Barry

“In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them were made out of crepe paper!”

People Made Three Four New York Paper Crepes

Author:Conan O'Brien

“'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.”

Thinking Would Be Actors New York Paper New York Times

Author:John Hawkes

“It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.”

“For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.”

Reason New York Paper Expensive No Reason Irrational

Author:Woody Allen

“I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when my mind is freshest. I might write for a couple of hours, and then I head out to have lunch and read the paper. Then I write for a little bit longer if I can, then probably go to the library or make some phone calls. Every day is a little bit different. I'm not highly routinized, so I spend a lot of time wandering around New York City with my laptop in my bag, wondering where I'm going to end up next. It's a fairly idyllic life for someone who likes writing.”

“The New York Times is most definitely a left-wing concern that is openly contemptuous of the conservative, traditional point of view. That is the primary reason the paper may soon dissolve.”

May Reason Left Views New York Paper Concern Wings Conservative Point Of View Traditional Primaries New York Times Left Wing Contemptuous

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper.”

Ifs Different Cities New York Paper New York Times

Author:David Cross

“Initially the papers said that the fact that Louis Brandeis was picked because he was Jewish. The New York Sun said he's the first Jew ever picked for the bench - a long and bitter fight expected in the Senate over confirmation.”

Firsts Long Said Facts Fighting Sun New York Paper Jew Expected Bitter Senate Papers Benches Confirmation Louis Brandeis

Author:Jeffrey Rosen