David Hewson Quotes

L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.

I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

Buenos Aires is an incredibly kind of fragrant city, a beautiful city to look at, and it has the old and the new.

I kind of wish I would have been able to see the old Yankee Stadium after seeing the new one.

Immersing myself in the Wrigleyville area was special to me and my family.

People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important.

I have great memories of the old Times Square - wouldn't have missed being here to see that place for the world - but I can also deal with the new Times Square in the overall scheme of N.Y. City 2010.

The Globe will become an automatic sight like the Tower of London and St. Paul's.

The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something.

Jaipur has definitely turned into a very beautiful city.

Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

It is the vibe of a city that makes it unique.

Glasgow's really friendly, with this impressive mix of real solidarity and identity that's very personal.

I love the whole layout of Vancouver and the super-friendly people who live there.

Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.

London, how could one ever be tired of it?

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

I think every metropolitan city has its pockets of - that's what makes them great.

Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.

I wonder if Chupacabras are... baby Mothmen?

A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis was taken by Space Aliens in 1976 because he was too good for this world. Remarkably, one of these stories is indeed true.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.