Famous quotes containing the words american and/or writers:
“[If] Playboy’s Hugh Hefner has done nothing else for American culture, he has given it two of the great lies of the twentieth century: “I buy it for the fiction” and “I buy it for the interview.””
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“Great writers are the saints for the godless.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)