Best American Writer Quotes

39 American Writer quotes by 37 unique authors

• American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. — Don DeLillo
• 'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to… — Mark Helprin
• Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison
• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was… — Camille Paglia
• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are… — Salman Rushdie
• The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe… — Jorge Luis Borges
• One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too… — Andy Rooney
• The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout
• I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer. — Jami Attenberg
• Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections… — Jami Attenberg
• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer. — Edmund White
• It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. — Margaret Anderson
• I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer… — Brian Lumley
• When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William… — Howard Mumford Jones

Who Wrote These American Writer Quotes

37 authors contributed a total of 39 American Writer Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 American Writer Quotes by Toni Morrison
• 2 American Writer Quotes by Jami Attenberg
• 1 American Writer Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 American Writer Quote by Stephen Daldry
• 1 American Writer Quote by Sherman Alexie
• 1 American Writer Quote by Scott Turow
• 1 American Writer Quote by Salman Rushdie
• 1 American Writer Quote by Ron Franscell
• 1 American Writer Quote by Rex Stout
• 1 American Writer Quote by Mark Helprin
• 1 American Writer Quote by Mark Haddon
• 1 American Writer Quote by Margaret Anderson
• 1 American Writer Quote by Lisa Scottoline
• 1 American Writer Quote by Kiran Desai
• 1 American Writer Quote by Jorge Luis Borges
• 1 American Writer Quote by Jonathan Raban
• 1 American Writer Quote by Jonathan Messinger
• 1 American Writer Quote by John Cheever
• 1 American Writer Quote by Jackie Chan
• 1 American Writer Quote by Howard Mumford Jones
• 1 American Writer Quote by Henry Louis Gates
• 1 American Writer Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 American Writer Quote by Grant Morrison
• 1 American Writer Quote by Gore Vidal
• 1 American Writer Quote by Edward Abbey