American writer Quote by Toni Morrison

Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of…

— Laura Wade

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a…

— Sherman Alexie

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their…

— Louise Erdrich

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

— Renata Adler

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native…

— Sherman Alexie

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is…

— Sherman Alexie

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

— Robert Morgan

Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read coming up…

— Micah Perks

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

— Daniel Alarcon

I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount…

— Michael Dorris