About Quote by Bob Shacochis

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

— David Means

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

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

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have…

— Pankaj Mishra

Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read coming up…

— Micah Perks

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add…

— Chinua Achebe

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

— Peter Jennings

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing…

— Rabih Alameddine

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

— Andrew O'Hagan

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura