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
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
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. — Anne Rice 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
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
'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
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
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
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 like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March 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
The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of… — Edward Abbey 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
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
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
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
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
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
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic… — Sherman Alexie 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
“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
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed… — Marilynne Robinson 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
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
