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I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

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 have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

I like helping other writers who don't know what to do or where to go in New York.

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.

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.

For a writer, New York works well. Literary work is very elitist. I worked two hours a day, maximum, and the time after that was very agreeable. I walked a lot with pleasure. Those two hours augmented the day. I wrote more here than in Paris, an entire chapter of a new novel.

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.