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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

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' — George Saunders

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

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning. — R.L. Stine

I used to never miss the 'New Yorker' or 'New York.' Now I never bother. — Dan Jenkins

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 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

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

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

New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. — Vanessa Ferlito

Chandler again: "I have never liked anyone who disliked cats, because I've always found an element of acute selfishness in their dispositions. — The New Yorker

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

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable. — Pete Hamill

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. — Richard Avedon

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'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk. — Ed Askew

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

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 am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. — Sonia Sotomayor

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

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

If we accept the unacceptable today, what's the outlook for tomorrow going to be? — George Booth

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become. — Trevor Moore

Tonstant Weader fwowed up. — Dorothy Parker

I am the young, edgy New Yorker. — Douglas Wilson

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. — David Sedaris

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation. — Binyavanga Wainaina

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. — E.B. White

In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.' — Bruce Eric Kaplan

General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission. — Harold Holzer

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. — Dorothy Parker

As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, "Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art." In — David Bayles

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. — Sonia Sotomayor

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

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. — John Updike

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' — Diane Mott Davidson

But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. — The New Yorker

I'm an unabashed fan of 'The New Yorker.' I do feel proud when I see my artwork in there. — Adrian Tomine

A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing. — J.D. Salinger

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense. — V.S. Pritchett

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me. — Bob Dylan

A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black. — Amanda Hearst

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

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter. — David Sedaris

I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality. — Cyndi Lauper

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city. — Rita Ora

on the internet, nobody know if you are a dog... — The New Yorker

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? — Leonard Slatkin

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

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. — Dorothy Parker

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world. — George Pataki

A Michigander can be every bit as prickly as a New Yorker, just not out loud. The Midwesterner's credo: keep it to yourself. — James Hynes

When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time — Svetlana Alexievich

New Yorker, the collection would, in many ways, define us as a couple. — Nicholas Sparks

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. — Daniel Alarcon

When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place. — Tina Brown

The older I get the more grateful I am not to be told how everything comes out. — Mavis Gallant

[Raymond Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered. — The New Yorker

The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy. — Dorothy Parker

Eleanor Gordon was the most sophisticated in their crowd. She read The New Yorker. — Judy Blume

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

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

The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating. — Alison Bechdel

'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