Becoming Quote by Torrey Peters

For many American-Jewish writers, the dominant motifs have been cultural, secular, sometimes comic, often satirical. Writing about the religious component of Judaism, I found…

— Allegra Goodman

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be…

— Stanley Schmidt

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

— Jennifer Gilmore

My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish History, Jewish…

— Jill Soloway

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't…

— Michelle Zauner

At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a…

— Kevin Barry

I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

— Min Jin Lee

I believe that a lot of minority writers stress about whether they get pigeonholed in writing about identity stuff, like you can't write about…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

My family were Russian Jews. They got you to read as soon as you could. And then assumed you would read a lot. People…

— Grace Paley

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only…

— Howard Jacobson

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as…

— James Welch