Accidents Quote by Don DeLillo

“But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana . That…

— Don DeLillo

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my…

— America Ferrera

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

I hate the word 'Americana,' so I won't use it. I don't even know what Americana is, exactly.

— Uncle Kracker

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 have declared my loyalty to Americana.

— Rodney Crowell

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

— Karan Bajaj

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.

— Mitali Perkins

“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America,…

— Clyde Brion Davis

There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

— Gabriel Iglesias

Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

— Glenn Ligon