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Technically, I'm a New Yorker. -- Charlie Day
I'm a New Yorker, you know. -- Edward Norton
I am the young, edgy New Yorker. -- Douglas Wilson
I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues. -- Zoe Kravitz
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. -- Alan Dershowitz
I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker. -- Kevin Sessums
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I'm used to driving fast; I'm a New Yorker. -- DMX
I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage. -- Cheyenne Jackson
I still think of myself really as a New Yorker -- Parker Stevenson
Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me. -- Bob Dylan
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense. -- V. S. Pritchett
I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit. -- Rachel Boston
I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry. -- Lily Tomlin
I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home. -- Hope Davis
New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker. -- Anthony Weiner
A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla! -- Heather Thomson
I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic. -- Moon Unit Zappa
I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there. -- Nicole Holofcener
I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter. -- David Sedaris
Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' -- George Saunders
When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust. -- Laurence J. Peter
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here. -- Joan Collins
The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it. -- Robert Mankoff
I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. -- Meg Rosoff
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. -- Vanessa Ferlito
A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning. -- R. L. Stine
I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three. -- Laurie Anderson
You have to be a xenophile at heart to be a true New Yorker. -- Chris Diamantopoulos
I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it. -- Jay Maisel
How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously? -- Leonard Slatkin
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker -- Armand Assante
A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black. -- Amanda Hearst
No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy. -- Daniel Boulud
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker. -- Armand Assante
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly. -- Kevin Sessums
I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker. -- Alan Dershowitz
I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family. -- Susan Sarandon
I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker. -- Trevor Moore
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. -- Laurie Anderson
I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is. -- Kara DioGuardi
I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
I am a music snob, and proud of it. I'm a New Yorker; smugness is my birthright. -- J.J. Howard
The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become. -- Trevor Moore
I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day. -- Tamara Tunie
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. -- Daniel Alarcon
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. -- John Updike
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. -- E. B. White
Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth. -- David Sedaris
When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place. -- Tina Brown
I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. -- Judy Holliday
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable. -- Pete Hamill
I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk. -- Ed Askew
I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here. -- Sloane Crosley
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. -- Sonia Sotomayor
You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. -- Colson Whitehead
Let's say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he's the best. -- Paul Dano
I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality. -- Cyndi Lauper
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' -- Diane Mott Davidson
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To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize. -- Eliot Spitzer
The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert. -- Robert Mankoff
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
A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
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
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
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
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
Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago. -- Nat Hentoff
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 guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker. -- Mark Indelicato
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
Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life. -- Robert Moses
New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished. -- Kurt Braunohler
The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts. -- William Shawn
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
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
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
I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering. -- Ben Lerner
[Bill Shawn] had always been in The New Yorker immaculately dressed - quietly, immaculately dressed, very soft-spoken. On the phone I could hardly hear him sometimes. -- Nat Hentoff
New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished. -- Kurt Braunohler
I submitted a poem last night to The New Yorker. They said it can take up to three months to hear back. I got rejected immediately. -- Jarod Kintz
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
Im 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
The strangest part of being so well known is definitely getting a New Yorker profile. It's a wonderful, strange process, like seeing yourself through a distorting mirror. -- Neil Gaiman
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
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
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker. -- Bharati Mukherjee
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
You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself. -- Rula Jebreal
I've always believed that thoughtful people don't really take the tabloids seriously. They're basically a form of entertainment. I enjoy them as much as the next New Yorker. -- Woody Allen
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
Yes, Im a New Yorker, born and bred. While Im not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York. -- Corey Stoll
I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development. -- Christine Quinn
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
I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor." -- Kevin Sessums
David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts. -- Kevin Sessums
I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair. -- Alex Gibney
Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons. -- Roz Chast
I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that. -- Garry Winogrand
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
One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative. -- Liza Donnelly
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
One of the perks of being a New Yorker cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative. -- Liza Donnelly
It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch. -- Adam Gopnik
You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall. -- Edward Rutherfurd
I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker. -- Kevin Sessums
I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing. -- Lauren Bacall
In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams - really a top, top artist that the 'New Yorker' was lucky to find and employ. -- Peter Beard
I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be. -- David Bowie
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national. -- Salman Rushdie
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. -- Edward Said
I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person. -- Fran Lebowitz
I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the 'New Yorker''s Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well. -- Rachel Sklar
Thou shalt not live within thy meansNor on plain water and raw greens. If thou must chooseBetween the chances, choose the odd;Read The New Yorker, trust in God; And take short views. -- W. H. Auden
The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter. -- Nat Hentoff

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