Famous quotes containing the words american and/or writer:
“The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutions ... are as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“... the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)