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- 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
- When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So… — Karl Marlantes
- I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the… — Tom T. Hall
- 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
- 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
- The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — W. Somerset Maugham
- 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
- By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II… — Tom Wolfe
- Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had… — Jasmine Cresswell
- Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes
- I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the… — Hussein Nishah