American Writer Quotes

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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very,… — Sherman Alexie
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. — Jackie Chan
Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground… — Terry Pratchett
The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even… — Edward Abbey
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window… — John Cheever
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. — Gore Vidal
The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers. — Scott Turow
Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the Westâ€™s best, but one of the most brilliantly literate American writers,… — Ron Franscell
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century… — Anna Quindlen
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. — Mark Haddon
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one… — Jonathan Messinger
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a… — Grant Morrison
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. — Anne Rice
It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New… — H. L. Mencken
The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing,… — Stephen Daldry
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory… — Donald Barthelme
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal… — Toni Morrison
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. — Donna Tartt
It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent… — Jonathan Raban
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about… — Alden Nowlan

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