American Quote by David Means

The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have…

— Pankaj Mishra

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best…

— Bob Shacochis

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

— Jami Attenberg

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

— Bryan Burrough

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created.…

— Shiree Mccarver

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

— Ken Liu

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

— Irwin Shaw

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel…

— Bharati Mukherjee