Books Quote by Dorothy Garlock

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

— Clive Cussler

“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

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

— Kathy Reichs

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

— Thomas Steinbeck

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

I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working…

— Carole Radziwill

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even…

— Thornton Wilder

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it…

— Daniel Suarez

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a…

— Constance Hale

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world,…

— Shane Smith

Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.

— Thomas Steinbeck