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I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

I write about the things I feel strongly about.

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.

For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.