The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March 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
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development. — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually… — Jesmyn Ward 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
I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to… — Claire Messud 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
I'm an African-American writer, I'm a lazy writer, I'm a writer who likes to watch The Wire, I'm a writer who likes… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done, later in this century, and in the next one, and the century after that, it will… — Arlene Sanders 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
I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent,… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great… — Rabih Alameddine 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
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me… — Elaine Sciolino 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
“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American… — Adam Morris 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 feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“The United States, the Spanish-American writer George Santayana wrote, ‘has always thought itself in an eminent sense the land of freedom, even… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows why another Latin American writer, Mario Llosa Vargas, one day punched Marquez in the face.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come… — John Rechy Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention,… — Sandra Cisneros 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
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
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