About Quote by Sam Shepard

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

— Mark Haddon

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

— Laurie Anderson

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

— Giles Foden

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

— Martin Amis

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

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

— David Means

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add…

— Chinua Achebe

“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain. Once you…

— Abhijit Naskar

The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have…

— Pankaj Mishra

I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we…

— Natalie Goldberg

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

There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think of writing…

— Michael Cunningham