Fiction Quote by Dylan Moran

The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and…

— Ishmael Reed

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

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I don't read a lot of fiction, but one of my favorite authors is William Kennedy; his books, to me, almost read like historical…

— Kurt Sutter

I didn't have to do that much research to present a post-apocalyptic New York because I basically grew up in that New York. That…

— Colson Whitehead

“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

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and…

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Jami Attenberg

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

— Gary Shteyngart

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character…

— Gay Talese

I don't read a ton of fiction, but Tom Wolfe's death got me to pick up 'The Bonfire of the Vanities.' I'm a slow…

— Steve Kornacki