I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I spend a lot of time writing in New York.
I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.
I like helping other writers who don't know what to do or where to go in New York.
Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree.
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'
I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.
I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.
I'm a New York story.