America Quote by Martin Amis

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

— Mark Haddon

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

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

— Giles Foden

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

— Gore Vidal

Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to…

— Nadine Gordimer

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's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

— Laurie Anderson

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

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

— James A. Michener

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

— Jerry Lewis

There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think of writing…

— Michael Cunningham

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