Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March Copy Share Image
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done, later in this century, and in the next one, and the century after that, it will… — Arlene Sanders Copy Share Image
We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“What we remember from childhood we remember forever—permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. —CYNTHIA OZICK, AMERICAN WRITER, B. 1928” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible. — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on… — Alden Nowlan Copy Share Image
Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Zuckerman, sucker though he was for seriousness, was still not going to be drawn into a discussion about agents and editors. If… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African… — James McBride Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Things have changed in Latin America now. We mostly have democratic governments in Latin America, so the position of the writer has… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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