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Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

~Alden Nowlan

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

~Anne Rice

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I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.

~Avi

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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

Topics: American American Writers Enough Field Fortunate Large Least Lot Lucky Ourselves Support Those Us Who Writers

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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: American American Writers Been Breakthroughs Continuity Did Enter Forgotten Generation Influenced Intellectual Major Most North North American Older Older Generation People Professions Since Thanks Those Were Writers Young Young People 1960S

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I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

~Daniel Alarcon

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

~Don Delillo

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Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.

~Donald Barthelme

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