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

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

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.

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.

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 kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

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