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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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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

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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

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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 yet most of their work is about reservations. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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

— Don DeLillo

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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

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When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

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

— William Nicholson

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Our great American writers were all newspaper people. ↗

— John Gould

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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

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