#american writer

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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Our great American writers were all newspaper people. ↗

— John Gould

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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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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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