Ambition Quote by Michael Korda

“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 have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was…

— James A. Michener

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

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

— David Means

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

— Thomas Steinbeck

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

— Anne Waldman

“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.”

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Thomas Steinbeck

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

— Lisa Scottoline

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never…

— Edward Abbey

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

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

— Bill Bryson