Always Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image “American literature has always been immigrant.” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Always American American literature Immigrant Literature
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States. — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana . That… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker is a… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
It's always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months. — William Regal Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I have really good lateral movement. I've always had quick lateral movement. — Austin Rivers Copy Share Image
There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music. — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
I always watch my matches back 100 times afterwards because that's how I improve. This is something I've always done, even in NXT. — Mandy Rose Copy Share Image
I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
