American literature Quote by Wallace Stevens

With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel…

— Kingsley Amis

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

American audiences are affected by what the English people think.

— Chita Rivera

“Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at…

— Eudora Welty

English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature…

— Paula Gunn Allen

I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans

— Irwin Shaw

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.

— Sam Wanamaker

I love American English, not least because a lot of it was ours to begin with. Indeed, many Americanisms can be found in the…

— Susie Dent

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it.

— Jessa Crispin

I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with…

— Claire Messud

“British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any”

— Charles Dickens