When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme 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
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
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
It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent,… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me… — Elaine Sciolino Copy Share Image
There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
“The bartender put a notepad and a pencil before me. Breathing hard, the pencil trembling, I wrote: Dear Sinclair Lewis: You were… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Well … yes, and here we go again. But before we get to The Work, as it were, I want to make… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers,… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
“The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is “ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly”.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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