American literature Quote by Kingsley Amis

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

— Jessa Crispin

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

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be…

— Christopher Dawson

English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature…

— Paula Gunn Allen

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

— Giles Foden

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of…

— Will Self

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

— Laila Lalami

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be…

— Stephen King

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd…

— Richard Russo

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or…

— Margaret Fuller

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet…

— Will Self