“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsKindTwoFactsHouseDifferencesFictionFailingWrittenNew YorkExampleBuildingBrokenSummerTablesGreenWinterExperimentsMessMaking A DifferenceJournalBroken DownVermontShackLeviathan Author:Paul Auster
“I think the nice thing about showing work in New York is that other artists come to see it. When you show work in Switzerland or somewhere else, everywhere else seems to be the provinces in a certain way. You wonder what your paintings are doing on the walls and you wonder who's looking at them.” ThinkingWayShowsSeemsArtistCertainWonderNiceNew YorkPaintingWallSomewhere ElseNice ThingsProvincesSwitzerland Author:Julian Schnabel
“What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we're doing it now. You know? Maybe that's a way to go. The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let's give away a Kindle to everyone.” IfsKnowsWayGivingSaidTechnologyNew YorkGasWhat IfTruckNew York TimesCheaperKindles Author:Biz Stone
“I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.” WayJobsMy OwnNew YorkStudentsCollegeLateMarriedTwentiesNineBotherThirtyApartmentCollege StudentsPrecocious Author:Meghan Daum
“What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.” WayHappensPolicyNew YorkSignificant Author:Zephyr Teachout
“Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was in a very dark place, in lots of foreign cities, far from New York. A lot of personal trials and tribulations took over my life in those years. It might be some time before I see what therapeutic function this book did serve. But for now, it's not even easy to read from it.” WayFeelsWritingYearsBookMightEasyDarkCitiesNew YorkFunctionTraumaTrialsTribulationTherapeuticDark PlacesTrials And Tribulations Author:Porochista Khakpour
“I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me.And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsWould BeWantedGuyThreeBoysEnvironmentNew YorkGrewReaderGrew UpConnectedLike MeMultipleNew York Times Author:Carl Hart
“I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.” ThinkingWayKindDifferentEndsReadingForceFeltForgetFictionNovelEffectsNew YorkEmotionalFlowerHairSceneShotsDoctorsTrainPatientGoodbyeNever ForgetUnfortunateCowboySaying GoodbyeDinosaursCanyonsCumulativeDifferent ExperiencesChekhovHawthorne Author:Adam Ross
“It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.” WayWritingStuffNew YorkWalkingBizarre Author:Lizzy Plapinger
“I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.” ThinkingWayBelieveSaidPlayHomeFatherParentChanceRolesSawsOur LivesWifeNew YorkWalkingMetsPureLuckStoresPostsAutobiographyPublishersWay Home Author:Owen Wilson
“Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area.” WayBelieveLongHas BeensFoundAttentionNew YorkAreasPaidSpeciesRangeIslandsTigersAsianVirusesTransmitMosquitoesConnecticutLong IslandCoastalMetro Author:Laura Harrington
“For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsDifferentStatesNew YorkMovementAppreciateMy FamilyConnectedPartnersPostsShockRemarkableTake TimeIt Takes TimeLike FamilyCounterculture Author:Aaron Brookner
“My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.” WayYearsArtWholeTogetherJobsMotherNextFatherSidesDoorsNew YorkBrotherMomMarriedScientistMovedNeighborMy BrotherDancerChicagoMy SisterSymphonyPianistWhole FamilyNext Door NeighborsCellists Author:Jason Graae
“New York feels like a sublet of Europe. And Europe is a sublet of New York. Put it that way. It's so accessible. When I was in LA, I felt so far away from my home. Home, for the moment, is here until it's not. I like to move around with my work. I feel it's a great way to learn about life, about new cultures, and to learn. We'll see where the wind takes me.” WayFeelsMomentsHomeMovingCultureFeltNew YorkWindEuropeTake MeFar AwayHome HomeNew Cultures Author:Sean Mahon
“Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.” WayLastsNew YorkObvious Author:Richard Hell
“Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.” WayFeelingsGivenStreetsNew York Author:A.C. Newman
“And so to dismiss these homegrown terrorists as boobs, which is one of the terms that was used in one of the New York newspapers after the Miami raid, is true now, but to bet on that is I think a sure way to lose your bank account.” ThinkingWayUsedTermLosesNew YorkAccountsTerroristNewspapersMiamiBank AccountsHomegrown Author:Michael Scheuer
“Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.” WayWritingSongNew YorkZoneObservingWriting Songs Author:Frankie Cosmos
“I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.” PeopleWayGrowsStuffHoursHalfGrowing UpNew YorkGrewBandGrew UpTownsOne WayBetter PlaceSmall TownTouringNazareth Author:Daughn Gibson
“Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health.” WayFeltCitiesEventsNew YorkMetsDespiteArtisticNew York CityOperaClawsAdriftDemoralizing Author:David Edelstein
“The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.” WayFirstsHomeSchoolJobsNew YorkHigh SchoolStoresDepartmentDepartment Stores Author:Frankie Knuckles
“I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.” IfsThinkingWorldWayCitiesAttentionNew YorkKingsTheaterIndependentConfusedNew York CityBubbles Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of indie films, just based on me being from The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle. I did a couple of indie movies from Japan and one from Canada, and I thought it was an exciting, fun thing to do. I had a great time doing it, it was just that, in New York, there really wasn't as much. My studio in New York closed, so I moved out to L.A. and just started looking into composing as another thing to do, as a musician. I like it a lot. It's fun and it's a different way of thinking about music.” ThinkingWayDifferentFilmFunPerfectNew YorkTvsCoupleMusicianExcitingMovedStudiosCirclesDifferent WaysThings To DoCanadaJapanWay Of ThinkingGreat TimesComposingPumpkinFun ThingsSmashingHad A Great TimeIndie FilmsSmashing PumpkinsIndie Movie Author:James Iha
“The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I moved to New York and began working on producing the play with my partners. And as a way to raise money to cover some venture debt, we decided to stage Anthem for a limited run at the Lex Theatre in Hollywood.” WayYearsIdeasPlayRunningStageNew YorkIdealsYears AgoDecidedHollywoodTwentiesRaisesMovedProductionsDebtTheatrePartnersVentureAnthemAssisting Author:Jeff Britting