American writer Quote by Jonathan Raban

“(On Barack Obama) "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean,…

— Joe Biden

Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history…

— Teju Cole

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect…

— Dee Dee Myers

How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that journalists are…

— Howard Kurtz

Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it…

— Fred Kaplan

For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.

— David Lammy

I like to say that I don't have the slightest doubt that Barack Obama read me in the early 80s. It's the kind of…

— Robert Christgau

“US journalists, for years overwhelmingly enamored of Barack Obama, were now commonly speaking of him in these terms: as some sort of grave menace…

— Glenn Greenwald

I just think Barack [Obama], he doesn't dig being asked at all. He's got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess…

— Bill O'Reilly

Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

— Noam Chomsky