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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

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

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

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

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

American literature has always been immigrant. — Salman Rushdie

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is nothing political about American literature. — Laura Bush

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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