“Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.” StatesUnitedFictionUnited StatesLowsOilOil Price Author:Dick Cheney
“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.” FirstsStatesNationsUnitedPowerfulFictionUnited StatesTeachingBuildingToolsIraqAfghanistanVietnamInitialsVery PowerfulPhilippinesNation BuildingTeaching History Author:Miguel Syjuco
“The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.” CountryStatesSeemsEasyUnitedFictionUnited StatesDemocraticVariousFantasticFiction Writers Author:John Updike
“I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.” PeopleIfsStatesUnitedNumbersFictionUnited StatesExampleExerciseMythStorytelling Author:Yann Martel