About Quote by Jesmyn Ward

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write…

— Alden Nowlan

I wanted to write about what it was like to grow up in a small town, what it means to fall in love and…

— Noah Kahan

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live…

— Anonymous

“I consumed books about social policy and the working poor. One book in particular, a study by eminent sociologist William Julius Wilson called The…

— J.D. Vance

I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.

— Lynn Nottage

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been…

— Tom Perrotta

I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from the real…

— Susan L. Taylor

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted…

— Karin Slaughter

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving…

— August Wilson

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

— Langston Hughes