The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March Copy Share Image
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. — Margaret Anderson 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
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development. — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. — Don DeLillo 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
With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for… — Celeste Ng 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
“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
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
I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers,… — Wanda Sykes 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
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
“Yes, even old American writers are dancing like it is still the eighties in San Francisco, like the sexual revolution has been… — Andrew Sean Greer 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
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
“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
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
“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
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
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American… — Toni Morrison 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
“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
“Beauty Junkies is the title of a recent book by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski, “a self-confessed recovering addict of cosmetic… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“(W.D.) Howells asserted that the Americans' 'love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from no particular ancestry.' Their fiction, he added,… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
