America Quote by John Steinbeck

“America takes her writers too seriously.”

— Kingsley Amis

Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it's a load of crap but it gets bandied…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of…

— William Faulkner

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

— Don DeLillo

We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so…

— Simon Hoggart

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in…

— Margaret Halsey

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

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

— Brittany Murphy

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

— Irwin Shaw

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it…

— Christian Slater

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

— David Means

The main thing is to believe writers know what their voices are, and if they are left alone, they will come through with something.…

— Julia Davis