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I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.
— Jon Oringer
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
New Jersey. If there's anyone more purely foolish than a New Yorker, it's a fellow from New Jersey.
— Stephen King
No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.
— Daniel Boulud
We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.
— William Shawn
I am a real New Yorker ... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale ... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.
— John Catsimatidis
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.
— Laurie Anderson
I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.
— Adrian Tomine
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.
— Robert Mankoff
Let's say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he's the best.
— Paul Dano
My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.
— Kate Christensen
The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.
— Robert Mankoff
I'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.
— Robert Silverberg
I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.
— Mohsin Hamid
Jincy Willett, Sam Lipsyte, Flannery O'Connor, and George Saunders. Oh, and I love Paul Rudnick in The New Yorker.
— Pamela Paul
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.
[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] — Francis Crick
[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] — Francis Crick
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
— Vanessa Ferlito
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
I'm a New Yorker, so I speak really fast, naturally.
— Katie Lowes
A New Yorker can never be beat, Gorham, because he gets right back up again. Remember that.
— Edward Rutherfurd
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
— Alan Dershowitz
I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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 New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.
— Cheyenne Jackson
New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
— Anthony Weiner
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.
— Nicole Holofcener
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.
— Richard Avedon
If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.
— George Pataki
'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'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.
— Mike Binder
The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.
— Alison Bechdel
Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade.
— Stephanie Clifford
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
— Valorie Curry
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.
— Pete Hamill
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
In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.'
— Bruce Eric Kaplan
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
— E.B. White
I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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
He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
— Dorothy Parker
I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.
— Moon Unit Zappa
Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.
— David Sedaris
I'm an unabashed fan of 'The New Yorker.' I do feel proud when I see my artwork in there.
— Adrian Tomine
The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.
— Trevor Moore
Technically, I'm a New Yorker.
— Charlie Day
I could live here forever. Maybe even become real New Yorker someday.
— Candace Bushnell
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
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
— Daniel Libeskind
I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.
— Ed Askew
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
— Bil Keane
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
But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.
— The New Yorker
Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.
— Dorothy Parker
I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.
— Zoe Kravitz
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
You don't get it, do you? This isn't 'good cop, bad cop.' This is fag and New Yorker. You're in a lot of trouble.
— Shane Black
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?
— Leonard Slatkin
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.
— Colson Whitehead
on the internet, nobody know if you are a dog...
— The New Yorker
It required an enormous amount of energy and time just to do errands like getting groceries. She was always sweaty after she got groceries.
— Stephanie Clifford
I've always essentially been a New Yorker.
— Lawrence Block
I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.
— Cyndi Lauper
A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.
— Amanda Hearst
You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker.
— Chris Diamantopoulos
When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
— Laurence J. Peter
I am a New Yorker.
— Connie Stevens
Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.
— David Remnick
Helene Huntington Smith, "Profile," New Yorker, April 5, 1930.
— Joseph P. Lash
[Raymond Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.
— The New Yorker
A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla!
— Heather Thomson
The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.
— Dorothy Parker
I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
— Laurie Anderson
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
— Daniel Alarcon
New Yorker, the collection would, in many ways, define us as a couple.
— Nicholas Sparks
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
— V.S. Pritchett