American Writers Quotes

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

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.
- Pat Conroy

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

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
- John Gould

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

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

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

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

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

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