I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“Well … yes, and here we go again. But before we get to The Work, as it were, I want to make… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When you think about fascism and right-wing governments, oftentimes people think about European history, but it's been flaring up on and off… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible. — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“The bartender put a notepad and a pencil before me. Breathing hard, the pencil trembling, I wrote: Dear Sinclair Lewis: You were… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’ – Upton Sinclair,… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.” — Pat Conroy 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
I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I think it's not an accident that you don't have that many Asian American women writers who are breaking out. I don't… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
“The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is “ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly”.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development. — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image