America Quote by Elizabeth George

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely…

— Valerie Miner

There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.

— Nelson Algren

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

— Pat Schneider

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to…

— John Berger

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in…

— Robert Henri

There are very few good writers about art, and you either get art-fashion writing with trendy views or you get very traditional writing. Occasionally,…

— Marc Quinn

We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a…

— James Dickey

I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No amount of…

— Laura van den Berg

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write…

— Matthew Specktor

“Art is made by those who consider themselves to have failed at whatever isn’t art. And of course it is loved as consolation, or…

— Howard Jacobson