“I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this house in upstate [New York]. I still have the story, but I got 15,000, 20,000 words in and it was like, This is falling apart. I can't figure out.” WantWritingYearsStillsI CanStoriesFallHouseNovelFiguresNew YorkYears AgoFalling ApartUpstate New York Author:Craig Finn
“The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.” PeopleWritingFirstsStoriesFallActorsNew YorkMovedFamiliarTerritoryConfessionAutobiographyGroundedPersonal ExperiencesTrajectory Author:Debra Dean
“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
“The New York Times is an institution that attracts careerists, who are drawn to power and access. This gave me a kind of a free hand. The kind of work that I wanted to do, most of the other reporters didn't want to do. I was not doing lunch. I was not sucking up to officials. I was writing from the street.” WantWritingKindHandsWantedStreetsNew YorkInstitutionsAccessOfficialsLunchReportersNew York Times Author:Chris Hedges
“There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.” WritingCitiesNew York Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“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'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.” WritingTryingStuffMy OwnNew YorkMental HealthFrank Author:Frankie Cosmos
“I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling.” PeopleFeelsWritingI CanStreetsHavensNew YorkHugeMetsInspiredBillionsHumbling Author:Frankie Cosmos
“Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.” WritingTryingNightNew YorkLateNeighborLate NightGood Neighbor Author:Sara Bareilles
“Our film [Hide and seek ]was created as part of the Asian American Film Lab's 11th 72 Hour Film Shootout filmmaking competition, where filmmaking teams have just 72 hours to conceive, write, shoot, edit and submit a film based on a common theme. The winners were announced during the 38th Asian American International Film Festival in New York last July. The theme for 2015 was 'Two Faces' and was part of a larger more general theme of 'Beauty'.” WritingTwoLastsFilmFacesHoursCommonTeamNew YorkCompetitionInternationalWinnerThemeSubmitFilmmakingFestivalsAsianJulyEditsLabsAsian AmericanAmerican FilmFilm FestivalsHide And Seek Author:Garth Kravits
“I'm writing songs about New York. A lot of them carry the names of neighborhoods in Long Island. Maspeth, Montauk. I'm getting into the idea of a F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque Long Island back when New York was...New York.” WritingLongIdeasSongNamesNew YorkIslandsNeighborhoodWriting SongsBack WhenLong IslandScott FitzgeraldMontauk Author:Zach Condon
“I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.” WritingStudyNew York Author:James Lipton
“My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip hop music was surrounding you with the hip hop culture, and it felt natural. I was a really huge fan of the music.” WritingCultureFatherFeltNaturalCitiesFansNew YorkHugeGrewGrew UpMusicianHip HopHipsHopsNew York CityHip Hop Music Author:El-P