American Quote by Clive Cussler

I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.

— Dorothy Garlock

“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created.…

— Shiree Mccarver

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience…

— Kiese Laymon

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

— Gary Shteyngart

I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.

— Alastair Reynolds

I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't…

— Haruki Murakami

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

— Thomas Steinbeck

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

— Kathy Reichs

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

— Tom Sizemore

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

— Jane Gardam