American Writers

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or writers:

    The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)