Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native…

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is…

— Sherman Alexie

“BARBARA: They're called Native Americans now, Mom. VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision?”

— Tracy Letts

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 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