Memorable Quotations: Great American Writers

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of great American writers, including Henry Brooks Adams, Zoe Akins, Louisa May Alcott, Katharine Susan Anthony, Hannah Arendt, Isaac Asimov, Faith Baldwin, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Djuna Barnes, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Saul Bellow, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Fawn M. Brodie, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Cullen Bryant, Pearl S. Buck, Taylor Caldwell, Truman Capote, Rachel Carson, Willa Cather, Raymond Chandler, John Cheever, Lydia M. Child, Kate Chopin, Eldridge Cleaver, James Fenimore Cooper, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Dix, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Drew, W.E.B. DuBois, Will Durant, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, John Kenneth Galbraith, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Angelina Weld Grimke, Edith Hamilton, Lorraine Hansberry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ben Hecht, Joseph Heller, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Helen Hunt Jackson, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, June Jordan, Sinclair Lewis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Anita Loos, Audre Lorde, James Russell Lowell, Clare Boothe Luce, Archibald MacLeish, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Phyllis McGinley, Herman Melville, H. L. Mencken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Arthur Miller, Henry Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Anais Nin, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O'Connor, O. Henry, Eugene O'Neill, Thomas Paine, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Mario Puzo, Ayn Rand, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Grantland Rice, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Muriel Rukeyser, Carl Sandburg, George Santayana, May Sarton, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Anne Sexton, Anne Spencer, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Styron, Booth Tarkington, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Lionel Trilling, Barbara Tuchman, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, Jessamyn West, Edith Wharton, E. B. White, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, Thomas Wolfe, and Richard Wright.