America Quote by Claire Messud

A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass,…

— Stephen Kinzer

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover…

— Mark Twain

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield…

— Henry James

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

— Jamais Cascio

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice…

— Porochista Khakpour

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

— Nelson DeMille

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

— Charles Clarke

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

— Bella Freud

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“Today's culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a…

— Luis Buñuel