American Quote by Bharati Mukherjee

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

— Karan Bajaj

I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a…

— Sherman Alexie

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

— Irvine Welsh

What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I…

— Karan Bajaj

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood…

— John F. Kennedy

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't…

— Michelle Zauner

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native…

— Sherman Alexie

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not…

— Jhumpa Lahiri