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.

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.

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.