I've never set out consciously to write American music. I…

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music…

— Virgil Thomson

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and…

— Renee Fleming

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the…

— Jackie Collins

We're never going to write an 'American Idiot' song.

— Luke Hemmings

I write in American slang.

— Norman Spinrad

All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about…

— Terrence McNally

I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about the war…

— Gary Paulsen

“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain. Once you…

— Abhijit Naskar

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are…

— William Saroyan

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which…

— Carlisle Floyd

You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to…

— Jimmy Webb

You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out the front…

— Dave Barry

“The state of New York had just one important advantage—an opening to the west through the Appalachian Mountains, the chain that runs in rough…

— Bill Bryson

If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if…

— Bill Bryson