Helen Fielding Quotes

Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America.

I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.

To me, you know, from my childhood I always had a fascination for United States.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I like America to some extent.

America is the big subject of the second half of the 20th century, tackled in one form or another by all the great American male writers. You could make a case for saying that it was the only game in town - from Bellow to Roth to Updike to Richard Ford - America was more or less explicitly the leitmotif.

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

To the world, you are America.

And I think Americans are phenomenal people.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.