“I just have goals. Big ones. I have big goals that involve big things in small places. -Gunner” — Dani Stowe Copy Share Image
“I do wonder why women are always hemorrhaging in American literature. -Pat Peoples” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
“Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time.” — Donald Hays Copy Share Image
I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Great song lyrics are as valid a part of American literature as any novel. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps… — H. L. Mencken 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
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must… — John Green Copy Share Image
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“The Bohemian who tires of life, who gives up by retirement into insamity or suicide, is not necessarily one who had failed… — Emily Hahn Copy Share Image
“Our orthodox friends need not be told that all merit in this world is comparative; and once for all, we desire to… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters… — James A. Michener 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
If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“American literature has, since the time of the Puritans, featured the jeremiad as a prolonged complaint, a prophet's indictment of his society… — Michelle M. Tokarczyk Copy Share Image
“The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands of European peasants… — Mary McCarthy 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
“Few authors have captivated the American penchant for curiosity like Samuel Longhorne Clemens. Many have called his cantankerous alter ego, Mark Twain,… — Lowell Smith Copy Share Image
“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she liked to read. The university’s “British and American… — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot Copy Share Image
“I do see why Nikki likes the novel, as it's written so well, but her liking it makes me worry now that… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more,… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. — Dashiell Hammett 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
