American Literature Quotes

36 American Literature quotes by 35 unique authors

• All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American… — Sherman Alexie
• The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey
• English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should… — Paula Gunn Allen
• I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they… — Mike Tyson
• I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. — Dashiell Hammett
• American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the… — Christopher Dawson
• As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the… — Julia Alvarez
• I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic… — Azar Nafisi
• Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well,… — Raquel Cepeda
• It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait… — Anatole Broyard
• Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy… — Michael Chabon
• We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down… — John Green
• Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to… — James L. Brooks
• Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of… — Peter Orner
• Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a… — Stuart Dybek
• It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent… — Margaret Fuller
• I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly… — David Eddings
• Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new… — Alfred Kazin
• One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. — Justin Cronin
• I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the… — Jonathan Frakes
• As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. — David Eagleman
• When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice… — Aleksandar Hemon
• The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. — Tayari Jones
• There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature. — Christopher Bollen

Who Wrote These American Literature Quotes

35 authors contributed a total of 36 American Literature Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 American Literature Quotes by David Eddings
• 1 American Literature Quote by Wilbur Smith
• 1 American Literature Quote by Wallace Stevens
• 1 American Literature Quote by Tayari Jones
• 1 American Literature Quote by Stuart Dybek
• 1 American Literature Quote by Sherman Alexie
• 1 American Literature Quote by Salman Rushdie
• 1 American Literature Quote by Raquel Cepeda
• 1 American Literature Quote by Peter Orner
• 1 American Literature Quote by Paula Gunn Allen
• 1 American Literature Quote by Natasha Trethewey
• 1 American Literature Quote by Mike Tyson
• 1 American Literature Quote by Miguel Syjuco
• 1 American Literature Quote by Michael Chabon
• 1 American Literature Quote by Marilynne Robinson
• 1 American Literature Quote by Margaret Fuller
• 1 American Literature Quote by Laura Bush
• 1 American Literature Quote by Kate Atkinson
• 1 American Literature Quote by Justin Cronin
• 1 American Literature Quote by Julia Alvarez
• 1 American Literature Quote by Jonathan Frakes
• 1 American Literature Quote by John Green
• 1 American Literature Quote by James Wolcott
• 1 American Literature Quote by James L. Brooks
• 1 American Literature Quote by James Dickey