American life Quote by Frederick Weisel

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes…

— Andrew Lam

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

It would seem evident, therefore, that the secret of the American short story was the treatment of characteristic American life, with absolute knowledge of…

— Bret Harte

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

— Henry James

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

“In writing this book, I have come to feel like a kind of immigrant in my own life, inhabiting a world of reflections and…

— Zachary Lazar

All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of Paradise Lost,"…

— Andrew Lam

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

Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all write our…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my…

— Sigrid Nunez

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of…

— H. L. Mencken

“I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from a crazy…

— Alex Comfort