American writer Quote by Pankaj Mishra

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

— David Means

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

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

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

— Jami Attenberg

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of…

— Colum McCann

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of…

— Colum McCann

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

— Anne Rice

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

— Irwin Shaw

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

— Bryan Burrough

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

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created.…

— Shiree Mccarver