American Quote by Giles Foden Download Open image “Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.” — Giles Foden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Been Beginnings Communication Dialogue Other Since Writing
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There… — Hemingway, Ernest Copy Share Image
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
