American writer Quote by Micah Perks

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best…

— Bob Shacochis

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

— Giles Foden

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

— Jami Attenberg

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

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

— David Means

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

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

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 love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing…

— Rabih Alameddine

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living…

— Marilyn Hacker

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never…

— Edward Abbey