American people Quote by Joan Bauer

“Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.”

— James Patterson

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig

“It was a very American story, somehow. 'Lost.' Each community had such stories. Possibly, each family.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.”

— Ira Sadoff

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“Odette nodded at my notebook, where I was writing as she spoke. 'Do the people in America really want to read this? People tell…

— Philip Gourevitch

“...I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave abominably, and with such…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Where are the reporters of yesteryear?' he muttered, 'the nail biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write?”

— Annie Proulx

“Writers, we can't please everyone, nor should we try.”

— R.E. Fisher

“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.”

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr

“[...]all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear[...]”

— Terry Pratchett

“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?”

— E.A. Bucchianeri