Famous quotes containing the words american and/or writer:
“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)
“... the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)