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

— William Nicholson

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It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

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All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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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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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. ↗

— Jackie Chan

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