American literature Quote by Jessa Crispin

With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel…

— Kingsley Amis

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

— Clive Cussler

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

— Dashiell Hammett

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

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

— Gary Shteyngart

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

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

— David Shields

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

— Susan Sontag

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

— William Styron

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

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante