#american writer

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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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

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

— Anne Rice

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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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