Famous quotes containing the words american and/or writers:
“The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)