Coast Quote by Sandra Cisneros

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

— Wang Leehom

The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological…

— Donald Richie

Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ...…

— Walter Kirn

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

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've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the…

— Rebecca Solnit

The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will…

— Lela Loren

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians…

— Asghar Farhadi

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

— Nelson Mandela

“Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...”

— Johnny D. Boggs

I see so many talented writers of color struggling to get their work out to an audience. I know that's the case for all…

— Jesmyn Ward