American writer Quote by Margaret Anderson Download Open image “It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.” — Margaret Anderson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American writer Writing
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 Copy Share Image
The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from. — David Means Copy Share Image
There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone. — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as… — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
“Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world… — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country. — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want… — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
... laws haven't the slightest interest for meexcept in the world of science, in which they are always changing; or in the world of… — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too. — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
“I believe in the unsubmissive, the unfaltering, the unassailable, the irresistible, the unbelievable — in other words, in an art of life.” — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. — Margaret Anderson Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot. — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
“One of the vital things for a writer who’s writing a book, which is a lengthy project and is going to take about a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain. Once you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
