All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green 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
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
“Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.” — Donald Hays Copy Share Image
“I can assure you Ernest Hemingway was wrong when he said modern American literature began with Huckleberry Finn. It begins with Moby-Dick,… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James… — James Lee Burke 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
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am fine with my books being categorized as African-American literature but I hope they are also considered Haitian-American literature and American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“The American's literature is all about being hot and sexy, inspiring a girl and going to bed with her. It focuses on… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature.… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his… — Ben Miller 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
“For me the poem and the poetry open mic isn’t about competition and it never will be. Honestly? It's wrong. The open… — R.M. Engelhardt 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
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“In other words, I mean the formal aspect of a work that has made it possible for critics of all affiliations (Marxist,… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“Cliff says Sylvia Plath's work is very depressing to read, and that his own daughter had recently suffered through The Bell Jar… — Matthew Quick 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
“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
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.” — Jonathan Edwards 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
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
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
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It… — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
![“[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities, especially in his diary, which is one of the greatest and most readable in all of American literature.” quote by Gordon S. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52f/gordon-s-wood-13199_ambition_john-adams-s-vividly-descriptive-prose-i_1856135.jpg)
![“[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.” quote by Hal Holbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca3/hal-holbrook-17109_american-literature_mark-twain-is-pointing-at-you-you-the-re_3109645.png)
