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
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“This lack of what may roughly be called social paranoia causes the American writer in Europe to feel—almost certainly for the first… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Zuckerman, sucker though he was for seriousness, was still not going to be drawn into a discussion about agents and editors. If… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in… — Jessica Hagedorn 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
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
I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched.… — Daniel Alarcon 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
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
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
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
It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
'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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are… — Isabel Allende 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
Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that… — James McBride 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
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
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
Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative… — Katie Kitamura 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
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