American writer Quote by Don DeLillo Download Open image “American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.” — Don DeLillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare American writer American writers Dangerous Writing
“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures. In my… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from. — David Means Copy Share Image
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain. Once you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
