America Quote by Justin Cartwright

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family,…

— Isabel Allende

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

— David Means

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel…

— Bharati Mukherjee

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

— Thomas Keneally

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I…

— James Salter

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

I could have been a writer.

— Harry Dean Stanton

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

— Jami Attenberg

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it…

— Daniel Suarez