America Quote by Linda Colley

“But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana . That…

— Don DeLillo

I had this grand plan for writing the history of the United States in six volumes. This was in the mid-1990s; I was fairly…

— H. W. Brands

“The United States, the Spanish-American writer George Santayana wrote, ‘has always thought itself in an eminent sense the land of freedom, even when it…

— Pankaj Mishra

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the…

— Winston Churchill

“The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all…

— Simón Bolívar

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is…

— Natasha Trethewey

“NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUTHORS TENDED TO INTERPRET history as a progression from savagery to civilization. Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of agriculture, metallurgy,…

— Jared Diamond

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use…

— Don DeLillo

“He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.”

— Ron Chernow

In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his mouth was…

— Sam Abell

If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and…

— Matthew Desmond

“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America,…

— Clyde Brion Davis