American Writer Quotes

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

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

I'm an African-American writer, I'm a lazy writer, I'm a writer who likes to watch The Wire, I'm a writer who likes to eat a lot of steak.

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read coming up as a writer, that helped form my ideas of what it means to be American - and an American writer. I'm always in conversation with them.