20th century Quote by Ana Castillo

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than…

— Cheryl Strayed

The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the…

— Michelle Dean

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never…

— Jenny Zhang

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

— Laura van den Berg

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

— Katori Hall

Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't…

— Toni Morrison

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

— Elena Ferrante

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

— Giles Foden

It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties and thirties…

— Garth Greenwell

Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We just have…

— Lisa Jewell

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie