Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from. — David Means Copy Share Image
“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.” — Ira Sadoff Copy Share Image
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai 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
American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As… — Brian Lumley 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
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on… — Alden Nowlan 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
“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
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
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers… — Salman Rushdie 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
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
As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing… — Ken Liu 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
When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now --… — Doris Lessing 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
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
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen 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
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
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Things have changed in Latin America now. We mostly have democratic governments in Latin America, so the position of the writer has… — Carlos Fuentes 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
“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
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
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
