American literature Quote by Adam Morris

I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in…

— Daniel Alarcon

Novelas are very respected in the Latin world.

— Jaime Camil

There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in…

— Daniel Alarcon

The main reason I decided to study Latin American literature was because I'd gotten somewhat bored by the American fiction I was reading. I…

— Adam Morris

I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice…

— Porochista Khakpour

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes,…

— Chinua Achebe

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

— Zoe Saldana

As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see…

— Julia Alvarez

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

— Daniel Alarcon

Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers, which sometimes…

— Adam Morris

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we…

— Reza Aslan