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A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.

Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976

I think that anyone who likes writing views 'The New Yorker' as the, you know, pinnacle of the publishing world. If you get 50 words published in 'The New Yorker,' it's more important than 50 articles in other places. So, would I love to one day writ...

Lauren Weisberger

As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about tho...

Barry McGee

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas ― stale and unprofitabl...

Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

Rita Ora

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

Susan Sarandon

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

Armand Assante

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Phyllis Diller

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

Laurie Anderson

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

Nicole Holofcener

I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker.

Mark Indelicato

When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.

Tina Brown

I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

Elaine Stritch

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

Brendan Gill

'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.

Robert Mankoff

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Bil Keane

The more traumatic events you endure with the city, the more of a New Yorker you become.

Trevor Moore

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Sonia Sotomayor

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

Christine Quinn

Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.

Ellie Kemper

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

George Pataki