Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.

William Zinsser

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

Zoey Deutch

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

Zoe Kazan

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.

Bryce Courtenay

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

Gillian Jacobs

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

James McBride

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

Katori Hall

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

Peter Straub

Whenever I work with different artists, I expand as a song writer, as a producer, and I always want to try and find the bridge between my world and their world.

Steve Aoki

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

Steve Bisley

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

William Gaddis

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Patton

We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.

African-American

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.

Democracy: An American Novel

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

Eat Now; Talk Later: 52 True Tales of Family, Feasting, and the American Dream

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828

In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam