America Quote by Neil Gaiman

This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion,…

— Amy Lowell

There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is…

— Sherwin Wine

“There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we…

— James Baldwin

Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“America: this strange, huge place where I now found myself living that I knew I didn’t understand. But I wanted to understand it. More…

— Neil Gaiman

“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

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

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, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as…

— Ronald Reagan

This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking about how…

— Junot Diaz

If you go by that little inscription on the Statue of Liberty, the purest idea of America is complete cultural chaos.

— Everlast

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.…

— Andy Warhol