Elaine Sciolino Quotes

Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized...

Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized...

Elaine Sciolino

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An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me here so long. . . It was useless to answer him in words. I suggested instead that we take a str...

Elaine Sciolino

An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me here so long. . . It was useless to answer him in words. I suggested instead that we take a str...

Elaine Sciolino

About Author

Elaine Sciolino is an author and contributing writer of The New York Times, writing from France since 2002.
She grew up near Buffalo (NY) and began her career as a journalist with Newsweek magazine. In 1984 she joined the New York Times.

Consuming alcohol in public is allowed in France, which means drinkers overflow onto the sidewalk, especially on the Montmartre stretch. But it rarely gets out of control.

Elaine Sciolino

Consuming alcohol in public is allowed in France, which means drinkers overflow onto the sidewalk, especially on the Montmartre stretch. But it rarely gets out of control.

Elaine Sciolino

He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for the fish, he wrote. His passion and his profession is to wed the crowd. . . . To be away fr...

Elaine Sciolino

He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for the fish, he wrote. His passion and his profession is to wed the crowd. . . . To be away fr...

Elaine Sciolino

Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urgent business req...

Elaine Sciolino

Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urgent business req...

Elaine Sciolino

He told me it was First, by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Elaine Sciolino

He told me it was First, by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Elaine Sciolino