American Quote by W. Earl Brown

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

— Kiefer Sutherland

“The concept of good versus evil is a handy construct for framing a narrative. When you see someone applying that concept to real-world events,…

— Stewart Stafford

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

— John Lewis

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters,…

— Sergio Leone

Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys…

— Harry Dean Stanton

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but…

— Sergio Leone

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

— Leo Tolstoy

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

— Patrick deWitt

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

— William Styron

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

— Anonymous