Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow…

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

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

Well, the film initially - we had decided to pair joy with fear because I don't know about you - for me fear was…

— Pete Docter

Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but…

— John Lukacs

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never…

— Edward Abbey

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we…

— Sandra Cisneros

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

— Lisa Scottoline

When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are…

— Doris Lessing

I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has…

— James McBride

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write…

— Alden Nowlan

'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

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

— Anne Rice

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

— Laurie Anderson