American Quote by Amanda Foreman

I was a graduate student at Oxford when I discovered Georgiana.

— Amanda Foreman

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a…

— Werner Sollors

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Aunt Hattie, when you wrote that book, I imagine you were thinking of something radical: the abolition of slavery itself. You were only one…

— Roxana Robinson

I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware…

— Jesmyn Ward

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

— Liza Campbell

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I…

— John Brandon

I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really…

— Garry Marshall

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root,"…

— Bernice L. McFadden

“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of making war…

— Bruce Catton

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

— Flora Tristan