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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.

I care about America. I care about the people that can't find jobs. I care about my 20 grandkids and what kind of America they are going to have.

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

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

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

If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

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

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.