Colson Whitehead Quotes

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

I live in Brooklyn.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.

In about 2002, I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, to Red Hook.

I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

I went to grad school in San Francisco, and then left for New York City with my eye on Broadway. I had saved $5000, which seemed like a lot of money in my mind... until I realized it was going to take $2500 to get to New York and then the first and last month's rent.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

I would never want to move to L.A.

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.

I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block.

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

I probably shouldn't live in New York.

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.