#new york

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#am #avoided #dare #fiction #found

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#am #avoided #dare #fiction #found

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#first #i #indian #milan #model

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#america #came #city #cultures #each

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#back #because #community #desperate #family

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#i #i can #i see #new #new york

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#bestseller #book #bragging #copied #first

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#badly #been #by the time #consumer #corn

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#boy #brooklyn #childhood #i #i was born

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#back #brilliant #happy #however #i