I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
“Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time.” — Donald Hays Copy Share Image
“I do wonder why women are always hemorrhaging in American literature. -Pat Peoples” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
“The American's literature is all about being hot and sexy, inspiring a girl and going to bed with her. It focuses on… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“But I'll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction,… — Leslie Fielder Copy Share Image
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“Few authors have captivated the American penchant for curiosity like Samuel Longhorne Clemens. Many have called his cantankerous alter ego, Mark Twain,… — Lowell Smith Copy Share Image
“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she liked to read. The university’s “British and American… — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
“In other words, I mean the formal aspect of a work that has made it possible for critics of all affiliations (Marxist,… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Around this time, Pelletier and Espinoza, worried about the current state of their mutual lover, had two long conversations on the phone.… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Cliff says Sylvia Plath's work is very depressing to read, and that his own daughter had recently suffered through The Bell Jar… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more,… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“I just have goals. Big ones. I have big goals that involve big things in small places. -Gunner” — Dani Stowe Copy Share Image
One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
“The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
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