In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
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I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.
What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.
What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.
To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.
I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York.
I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.