Stephanie Szostak Quotes

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

I find N.Y. very inspiring; there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in N.Y. like nowhere else.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called 'Equis.' And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here.

Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

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

I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you have so many nationalities that are actually mixed together - it's so multicultural.

I just try to reflect the grittiness in New York. I try to protect the grit and the dirt that comes with it, which is a good thing.

I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

I like it when I go to a city and it puts its personality out there to be readily experienced.

I do find myself missing the energy of New York more and more often as my time away from the city progresses.

I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in the air which made one think - made me think for many years - that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.

When I was young, it was an exciting time to be in New York.

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.