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 call...