"I’d known since I was 5, when my parents forced me to move to
California, that I was going to live in New York eventually and
that everything in between was just a horrible intermission.
I’d spent those sixteen years imagining what New York was going to
be like. I thought it was going to be the most exciting, magical,
fraught-with-possibility place that you could ever live in; a place
where if you really wanted something, you might be able to get it; a
place where I’d be surrounded by people I was dying to be with. And
I turned out to be right."
Nora Ephron (arrived in 1962) - from My First New York.
(The beloved issue of New York Magazine from Spring 2009 is now a book)
California, that I was going to live in New York eventually and
that everything in between was just a horrible intermission.
I’d spent those sixteen years imagining what New York was going to
be like. I thought it was going to be the most exciting, magical,
fraught-with-possibility place that you could ever live in; a place
where if you really wanted something, you might be able to get it; a
place where I’d be surrounded by people I was dying to be with. And
I turned out to be right."
Nora Ephron (arrived in 1962) - from My First New York.
(The beloved issue of New York Magazine from Spring 2009 is now a book)