America’s short-lived experiment with language planning is…

“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good…

— Orson Scott Card

I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of…

— H. W. Brands

I can't define myself as a political writer - I don't think I've earned it, and I don't function as a political writer in…

— Katie Kitamura

I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book to make…

— Molly Antopol

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

— Denis Johnson

I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can…

— Peter Morgan

I'm accountable - this sounds emo - to black American writing, Southern writing, Southern black American writing, American writing and my people. That's kind…

— Kiese Laymon

“I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

— Willem de Kooning

“I am, apparently, of that rare breed that likes to write. The demands of a chapter pull me from bed in the morning, and…

— David Freeman Hawke

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl…

— Jean Fritz

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean…

— John Searle

Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez