Mean Quote by Susan Sontag

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of…

— William Faulkner

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

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

— Margaret Anderson

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

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

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

— Gore Vidal

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

— David Means

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of…

— Colum McCann

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of…

— Colum McCann

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

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world…

— Sam Shepard