It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not…

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of…

— Jackie Chan

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers…

— Mark Helprin

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but…

— Isabel Allende

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

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that…

— Pat Conroy

“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

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

— Frances Trollope

Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly…

— Edward Hoagland

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

“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a…

— Roald Dahl

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

I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I…

— Daniel Alarcon