America Quote by Pankaj Mishra

I see globalization as a modern-day muse; it not only enables but entitles today's writers to venture outside the boundaries and the comfort of…

— MHA Menondji

“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

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

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

The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

— Anatole Broyard

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be…

— Stanley Schmidt

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find…

— Sara Sheridan

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment…

— Salman Rushdie

English culture is highly literary-based.

— Peter Greenaway

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

— V. S. Pritchett