Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the…

— Wislawa Szymborska

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

— William Nicholson

I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing…

— Rabih Alameddine

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

— Robert Littell

When I was younger I used to make wallets and purses out of newspaper and I would give them out to people.

— Bob the Drag Queen

“In dealing with newspaper people, whether they are white or black, there is no way of getting their sympathy and support like that of…

— Booker T. Washington

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

— Russell Baker

... people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw the web as TV, and people in book…

— Paul Ford

When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come…

— Jenny Zhang

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant…

— Raoul Peck

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, and four…

— Wanda Sykes

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

— Anne Rice

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

— Bryan Burrough

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

— Laurie Anderson