American writer Quote by Edward Abbey

John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand on a…

— Harry Belafonte

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

I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but…

— Mike Tyson

Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read coming up…

— Micah Perks

I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at…

— Lucas Neff

“Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs…

— James Kisner

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it…

— Daniel Suarez

I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing…

— Rabih Alameddine

“If you want to see the best novelist, it's yourself. try to write all your stories on a blank sheet of paper then you'll…

— Miraeniuzz Sanaf