Josh Malerman Quotes

When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.

I left for New York three days after graduation.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

There is something very appealing about moving to a faraway place.

I remember moving to California and feeling so strange because I'd always seen myself moving to New York.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead.

I moved to New York when I was 17 for college.

In late 2004, I left my much-maligned home state of New Jersey for the supposedly greener pastures of Astoria, Queens. I'd finally be in the mix, living off the subway line, able to go from audition to audition during the day and from late night show to late night show in the wee hours of the morning.

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.

Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

When I was 7, we moved to New York because my dad's job was transferred.

I just can't live in New York anymore.

I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

My dream that I followed and that I'm living now is that I actually always wanted to go to music college, play in a band, do a world tour, and then eventually get into film music.

If I could miracle myself away, I would live out West.

I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.

I moved to L.A. because I didn't want to be in New York anymore. And I knew if I wanted to act, it would have to be in one of those places.

I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.