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I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together. — Alice Walker

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand. — Siri Hustvedt

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks. — Pat Conroy

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. — James Thurber

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers. — Lisa Scottoline

American writers were still content to describe an ironic culture when they should be showing the way out. — D.T. Max

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. — Manuel Puig

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid. — Gore Vidal

Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics. — Gene Luen Yang

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

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers. — Stephen Kinzer

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. — Jackie Chan

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle. — Jess Row

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot. — Bryan Burrough

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

I wanted to redirect, reinvent the political, cultural, and artistic judgments saved for African American writers. — Toni Morrison

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers. — Scott Turow

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

Our great American writers were all newspaper people. — John Gould

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

Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers. — Pat Conroy

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson. — Jo Nesbo

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. — Laurie Anderson

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. — William Nicholson

American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure. — Ira Sadoff

Reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers ... annotations, arrows ... an oudine of its design ... very seriously mislead. — William H Gass

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. — Don DeLillo

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. — Sherman Alexie

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. — Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history. — Cybill Shepherd