Behinds Quote by Dennis Etchison

With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These stories are…

— Peter Straub

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

— Irwin Shaw

“[American Psycho] is ”throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless…

— Andrew Motion

“Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with us?” and…

— Anonymous

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

— Ken Burns

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

— Keith Carradine

“You can’t even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen…

— David Hare

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

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of…

— Jackie Chan

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes…

— Charlton Heston

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate,…

— Mary McCarthy