I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.” — Donald Hays Copy Share Image
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green Copy Share Image
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“I do wonder why women are always hemorrhaging in American literature. -Pat Peoples” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“There are no backwaters where things can breed—our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Around this time, Pelletier and Espinoza, worried about the current state of their mutual lover, had two long conversations on the phone.… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Twas noontide of summer, And mid-time of night; And stars, in their orbits, Shone pale, thro' the light Of the brighter, cold… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing… — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“He wanted to know about day-to-day life in America, what people ate and what consumed them, what shamed them and what attracted… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Young poets are too apt to consider themselves “children of the mist” – they must dwell apart from men and contemn their… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
People don't realize how black people, minorities, women as well, all their lives, they have had to make the effort to understand… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
