Academic Quote by Harold Bloom

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

— Ken Liu

“He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.”

— Ron Chernow

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

— Conor Oberst

“Remember that only when past genius is transmitted into a present power shall we meet the first truly american poet. And somewhere, born to…

— Matthew Pearl

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

— Kiese Laymon

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 feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

— Willem de Kooning

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.

— Tavis Smiley

But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately as possible…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion…

— Frederick Weisel

“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America,…

— Clyde Brion Davis

I'm struck by how impressively John Elliott assimilated new work on early modern England and colonial America, as well as keeping abreast with his…

— Linda Colley