“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.” — Ira Sadoff Copy Share Image
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
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
American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development. — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. — William Nicholson 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
It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come… — John Rechy 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
“Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.” — Pat Conroy 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
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
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
Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet… — Terry Pratchett 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
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic… — Sherman Alexie 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 feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American… — Adam Morris 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
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
Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“(W.D.) Howells asserted that the Americans' 'love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from no particular ancestry.' Their fiction, he added,… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March Copy Share Image
“...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead.” — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
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