I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American…

Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a…

— Susan Cain

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

— W. Somerset Maugham

This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes…

— Rod Serling

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

— Tony D'Souza

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to…

— Jasmine Cresswell

I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we…

— Natalie Goldberg

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even…

— Maureen Corrigan

“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was…

— James A. Michener

In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who…

— Tom Peters

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page…

— Theodore Sturgeon

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

— Theodore Dreiser

I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony,…

— Eric Stoltz

“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.”

— Lionel Shriver

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

— Anne Waldman

People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a…

— Isabel Allende