American Quote by Germaine Greer

“If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I’d have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I’m glad Kurt Vonnegut…

— Ray Bradbury

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of…

— H. L. Mencken

Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could…

— Groucho Marx

I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this;…

— Daniel Craig

“The American character, and the American dream, could never be disentangled, and ultimately the latter would go only as far as the former would…

— Anonymous

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

— Jacqueline Susann

Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept,…

— Arthur Miller

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

— Arthur Miller

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

— Gary Shteyngart

“(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume) NOW, OUR MAN of wisdom…

— Norman Mailer

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

— Karin Slaughter

“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.”

— Siri Hustvedt