American Writers Quotes

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
Camille Paglia

Young, American, Older

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
Toni Morrison

Enjoy, American, Writers

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
Jackie Chan

Trust, Time, American

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 very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
Sherman Alexie

Work, Live, Writing

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
Anne Rice

Doubt, American, Writers

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
Don DeLillo

Live, American, Dangerous

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
Mark Haddon

Country, America, American

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
Paul Harris

American, Fair, Brilliant

It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.
Jonathan Raban

Long, American, Last

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
Lisa Scottoline

Writing, American, Story

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
William Nicholson

Family, Great, American

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
Alden Nowlan

Poverty, American, Write

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
John Gould

Great, American, Writers

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