American Writers Quotes
What shaped some of America's best-known literary voices.
Several of these quotes point to a shared background in newspapers before fiction, and to family as a recurring subject worth returning to. For more reflections tied to this country's identity, see our America quotes.
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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...
For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with...
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It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'
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...
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other...
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.
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There's also a pointed note here about how Native American writers regard that specific label, which is worth reading closely. For softer themes running through the same body of work, browse our Affection quotes.
