Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.
The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.
They [the Americans] certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.
My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing is very limited. What we have is good, but it's limited. There's not enough engagement with the world. Our literature's not adventurous enough. The influence of MFA writing tends to make things repetitive. The idea that writing can be taught has changed the whole conversation in the U.S.
