Grace VanderWaal Quotes

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

I like shooting in New York because I have such a connection to the city. I have so many memories there.

I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it's actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the writing process for me. I love everything about L.A. Okay, not the traffic. But I love the way it looks. I love the geography. I love the diversity.

In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.

I like shooting on location in New York City.

I'll just walk around New York and watch people on the streets.

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'

Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that there is so much going on in this city. I like walking around or taking the subway, thinking about all the history here, looking at the architecture and all the people; of course, the museums. It's tough to find a better place to live.

New York City is my playground.

I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.

I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

When I first came to New York, I was so bored. My friends were like, 'Do a blog. It's the hip thing to do for male models.'

I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.

I grew up in New York.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.