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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

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

We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.

Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.

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

I really write for people.

America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.

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.