“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“What we remember from childhood we remember forever—permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. —CYNTHIA OZICK, AMERICAN WRITER, B. 1928” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I love John Updike immoderately. I am profoundly shocked that he has gone because he was, for me, the greatest American writer… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Stephen [King], who wrote the script himself, was on the set [of The Stand], and I was just so fortunate to get… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African… — James McBride Copy Share Image
All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers,… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
There are probably some readers who don't want a great American writer to acknowledge that cleaning out the bottom drawer of the… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Whenever I write for television, I plan the story on whiteboard wallpaper in my office, using a system created by the American… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
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