American Quote by Denis Johnson

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

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't…

— Scott Turow

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

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

— Don DeLillo

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

— David Means

I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing…

— Rabih Alameddine

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

I wrote 'The Assistants' while I was the Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of 'Esquire.'

— Camille Perri

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

— David Shapiro

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 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