America Quote by Edmund White

I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only…

— Nathalie Handal

I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main…

— Herbert Hoover

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization,…

— Azar Nafisi

“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my shirt and…

— Robert Lowell

I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.

— Thom Browne

I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.

— Peter Carey

“...I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper grey censorship…

— Jack Kerouac

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles…

— Mark Leyner

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and…

— Carrie Brownstein

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

— Martin Amis

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

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is…

— Suzanne Vega