The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March 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
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
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
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 learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there… — Eudora Welty 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
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
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign… — Mark Haddon 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
“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
'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
“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
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
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'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
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
“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
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of… — Stephen Daldry 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
“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
“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
“(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
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.” — Ira Sadoff 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
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