Quotes About City

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)

The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.

I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it was 40 years ago or whatever, because that's not what New York is, really.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

I was lucky enough to experience an exceptional period with City. We won so much and played great football.

Living in London is funny - sometimes I love it and think it is absolutely amazing, but sometimes it is just exhausting.

Everyone's expectation of New York is so big, and then you go, 'Oh, it really is like no other place on Earth!'

You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

I went to NYU to study liberal arts.

I was a librarian in a city school.

I love just being at Lincoln Center - it's so New York! Those fountains!

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

I grew up a lot as a professional and as a person in Liverpool, and I have very strong links to the club and the city.

I'd like Everton to be known as the better team in Liverpool.

I love Liverpool and it is great to be back in the city.

You don't like Liverpool: you either loathe it or you love it. And I don't know anyone who loathes it and comes from it.

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

I like where I live here, in London.

I love London.

New York is tough on lonely people.

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.