Ass Quote by Kiese Laymon

I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we…

— Natalie Goldberg

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

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of…

— Colum McCann

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of…

— Colum McCann

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

— David Means

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

— Ken Liu

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield…

— Henry James

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura

The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have…

— Pankaj Mishra

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

— Andrew O'Hagan

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

— Giles Foden

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

— Jami Attenberg