It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.
If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction? This distinction doesn't agree with me.
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
American literature has always been immigrant.
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That's the only way you get it sometimes.
There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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