The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.” — Donald Hays Copy Share Image
I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction. — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green Copy Share Image
“We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“In that moment I think I learned the real tragedy of living too long. It is not losing one's health or one's… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie 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
Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The main reason I decided to study Latin American literature was because I'd gotten somewhat bored by the American fiction I was… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“Athenaeum, or Jonathan Edwards at thirteen entering Yale College, and while yet of a tender age shining in the horizon of American… — Charles Stewart Given Copy Share Image
In the last fifteen years or so, the women's novel has turnedinto the Amtrak of American literature; crashing through the gates at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
“And romance is just the place for creating mythic figures doing mythic things. Like carving 'civilzation' out of the wilderness. Like showing… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Civil War, all of our popular understanding, our popular history and culture, our great films, the subtext… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so… — Marilynne Robinson 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
“Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. — Tayari Jones 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
