Books Quote by Bharati Mukherjee

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

— Ken Liu

This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social…

— Jennifer Armintrout

It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity…

— Ana Navarro

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

— Clive Cussler

In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them,…

— John Updike

I just feel like it's fascinating to me just watching my own family, seeing my cousins have children here, seeing the generations go on,…

— Danai Gurira

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from…

— Christopher Rice

Mainstream culture is finally catching on to the fact that the world is made up of individuals.

— Myha'la

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world…

— Sam Shepard