Quote by Elizabeth Peters Download Open image ““Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.”” — Elizabeth Peters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.” — Ira Sadoff Copy Share Image
“I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary calibre. People… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“it has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.” — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Our sense of what American English is has upended our relationship to articulateness, our approach to writing, and how (and whether) we impart it… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our age of rapid mass production and the easy proliferation of consumer… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The room was so neat and tidy it made me feel quite depressed...I do not allow myself to repine about what cannot be helped;… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, 'I love you, Mother.' He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent. She had… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!” — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“Stop," he ordered, in a low but compelling voice. "Do not take another step, or I fire! Dash it," he added vexedly, "does the… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“Have you caught cold?' 'It would appear so.' 'You could give it to Margaret,' Ramses suggested. His uncle turned the tinted spectacles toward him… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“...DAMNATION!' No device of the printer's art, not even capital letters, can indicate the intensity of that shriek of rage. Emerson is known to… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“What a nice neat deep trench,' I said. 'Er - should Nefret be down in it?' 'She thought she saw a skull,' Ramses said.… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
