And love Quote by Isabel Allende

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

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page…

— Theodore Sturgeon

“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

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.

— John Dufresne

This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes…

— Rod Serling

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality…

— Deborah Reber

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented…

— John Fowles

The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have…

— Pankaj Mishra

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have…

— Mike D

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little…

— Zia Haider Rahman