America Quote by Margaret Fuller

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

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

“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

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world…

— Sam Shepard

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

— Anne Rice

American literature has always been immigrant.

— Salman Rushdie

American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the…

— Robert Kennedy

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

With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel…

— Kingsley Amis

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes,…

— Chinua Achebe

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

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen…

— David Hare