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

— Jackie Chan

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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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