American Fiction Quotes
- In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has… — Paul Elie
- IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
- There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. — John Hodgman
- I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders… — Emily Perkins
- American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it. — Gary Shteyngart
- Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. — Anatole Broyard