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Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

— Tracy K. Smith

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

— Keren Ann

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

— Jennifer Westfeldt

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

— Peter Lerangis

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

— Rosie Perez

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

— Neil Diamond

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

— Moby

Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

— Waris Dirie

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

— Theophilus London

I grew up in Brooklyn.

— Johnny Kelly

✗Opposing Perspectives

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.

— Colson Whitehead