American Quote by John Gould Download Open image “Our great American writers were all newspaper people.” — John Gould ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American American writer American writers Great Great american Newspaper Our People Were Writers
Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers. — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer. — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble. — John Gould Copy Share Image
Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two… — John Gould Copy Share Image
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth… — John Gould Copy Share Image
Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The… — John Gould Copy Share Image
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had… — John Gould Copy Share Image
What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape,… — John Gould Copy Share Image
I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to… — John Gould Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
