American writer Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

— Robert Morgan

Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic…

— Doris Lessing

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories…

— Herbert Gold

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March

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