Able Quote by Ishmael Reed

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of…

— Dylan Moran

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

— Jami Attenberg

There are a lot of writers from the South who would probably have once figured they needed to go to New York to make…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life…

— Malcolm Cowley

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

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

— James A. Michener

“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was…

— Gillian Flynn

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around…

— Victoria Chang

New York is great for writers insofar as you can pay someone to bring you food, to take your washing out and bring it…

— Nick Laird

There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.

— Adrian Dunbar

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

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their…

— Alexis de Tocqueville