American Literature Quotes

American Literature Quote of the day

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.

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

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

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

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

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

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

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

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

American literature has always been immigrant.

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.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

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

There's nothing political about American literature.

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

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

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

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

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

One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

There is nothing political about American literature.

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

Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to.

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

Africans must change their mind and actions.The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.

like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …