Accepted Quote by Rabih Alameddine

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

As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this…

— Ken Liu

I am not interested in political writing, because it's limited in its scope. I try to write general, human kinds of songs, which suggest…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer's Workshop students, I applied to…

— Andrew Shaffer

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my…

— Rob Roberge

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

— Lisa Scottoline

When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are…

— Doris Lessing

I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has…

— James McBride

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write…

— Alden Nowlan

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers…

— Mark Helprin

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant…

— Raoul Peck

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four…

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Anne Rice

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

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

— Laurie Anderson