America Quote by Sonia Sanchez

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it,…

— Kiki Dimoula

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.

— Jhonen Vasquez

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

— Timothy Findley

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

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

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine,…

— William Saroyan

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

— Helen Fielding

I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.

— Emma Stone

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

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

— Mario Vargas Llosa