American Novelist

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or novelist:

    “It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.”
    —Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)

    “A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)