I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking,… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.” — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had… — Jasmine Cresswell Copy Share Image
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun… — scavola Copy Share Image
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“[upon hearing that the school received funding for the football field, but not for any of the arts] Well, we might never… — Chris O'Guinn Copy Share Image
I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;'… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
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… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A.… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel,… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Lots of talk lately about the GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL that seems to be exclusively masculine. And how many of the characters in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“In an extraordinary 2012 essay in Guernica, Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie remembers the moment she noticed that no American novelists of the… — The Baffler Copy Share Image
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years.… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they… — Shiree Mccarver Copy Share Image
“Art is not a horse race. Literature is not the Olympics. The hell with The Great American Novel. We have all the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
“I try to keep up with what’s being done in every field, and most children’s books are ten times more enjoyable than… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
![“[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.” quote by Hal Holbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca3/hal-holbrook-17109_american-literature_mark-twain-is-pointing-at-you-you-the-re_3109645.png)
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![“[upon hearing that the school received funding for the football field, but not for any of the arts] Well, we might never have another Great American Novel or amazing musicals written by Americans, but at least we will always be able to toss a ball between some metal posts. Our priorities are right…” quote by Chris O'Guinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/117/chris-o-guinn-40849_amazing-music_upon-hearing-that-the-school-received-fu_14994.jpg)
