Quote

I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each gave me.

At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.

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.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

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.'

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.