“ At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface. ”
- David Sedaris- Copy
“ Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
“ New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up. ”
- Jimmy Connors- Copy
“ What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. ”
- Russell Baker- Copy
“ Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. ”
- Johnny Carson- Copy
“ It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. ”
- Brendan Gill- Copy
“ So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I-I feel very much a New Yorker. ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
“ People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
“ When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels. ”
- Paul Goodman- Copy
“ I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, 'I'm going to go uptown and be a writer, I'm going to work for The New Yorker one day and escape this ghetto… ”
- Will Eisner- Copy
“ I read a lot. And both of my parents, I think, would have wanted to be writers. It's funny how one ends up doing the things that-that parents-perhaps, the dreams that parents couldn't fulfill. I know that my mother would have been beyond herself to have had a story published in The New Yorker. ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
“ Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world. ”
- Russell Lynes- Copy
“ From what I've heard about Israel and its sites, landscape, beaches and historical and religious heritage, it is a wonderful place to visit. I told my friends that I'm going to Israel because I'm a New Yorker, and a New Yorker goes to Israel. ”
- Chris Noth- Copy
“ The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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