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Christians are the salt of the earth ... Nothing grows where they've been. — Donald Hays

I do wonder why women are always hemorrhaging in American literature.
-Pat Peoples — Matthew Quick

Axel smiled. "They say that good judgment comes from experience. And experience come from bad judgment." Alec laughed... — Ward Just

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well. — Tom Bethell

Serving time doesn't make you fit to do anything but serve more time. — Donald Hays

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it. — Kate Atkinson

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. — Toni Morrison

O my poor words, bear with me. — Theodore Roethke

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. — Ernest Hemingway,

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day. — Zora Neale Hurston

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. — Ralph Ellison

Only on a few occasions had I ever been comfortable showing my body off, and now here I was, taking a job where Asian boobs and ass ran free. — Teresa Lo

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. — Sam Neill

I am always in love. — Ernest Hemingway,

There is no achievement gap at birth. — Lisa Delpit

Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity. — Tony Kushner

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green

It was a good day to die, but nobody did. — Stephen Graham Jones

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. — Tayari Jones

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. — Diane Wakoski

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. — Dashiell Hammett

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. — Richard Dawkins

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. — David Eagleman

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet. — Eileen Myles

I think American literature is in a tedious place, horrible place. I can't even engage with it. — Jessa Crispin

He was a glance from God. — Zora Neale Hurston

Harper: You, the one part of
the real world I wasn't allergic to. — Tony Kushner

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream. — Jean Toomer

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. — Marcel Proust

I am the penny whistle of American literature. — Nelson Algren

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die. — Saul Williams

I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process. — Carolyn See

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google. — Joshua Cohen

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic. — Azar Nafisi

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out ... — Ben Marcus

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie. — James Dickey

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture. — Sven Birkerts

For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies. — Michael Patrick Hearn

No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities. — Stella Atrium

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Writing. Not writing. Twin Terrors. Putting one's mother into words ... It may have been easier to put her in her grave. — William H Gass

The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Herman Melville

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction. — Jessa Crispin

The trick set me up. It's that simple. — Shadez

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. — Justin Cronin

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. — Arthur Phillips

There is nothing political about American literature. — Laura Bush

They speak like melted butter and their children speak like footsteps on pavement ... — Isabel Wilkerson

The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it. — Annie Proulx

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level. — Richard Carmona

American literature has always been immigrant. — Salman Rushdie

I have never had the lust to meet famous authors; the best of them is in their books. — Michael Gold

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful. — Zora Neale Hurston

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. — Sinclair Lewis

I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. — David Eddings

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens

I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature. — Mark Helprin

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. — Norman Mailer

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species. — Henry James

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature. — Christopher Bollen