Books Quote by Natalie Goldberg

“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

All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel,…

— Alexandra Petri

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've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

— Howard Gordon

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American…

— Michael Korda

We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking…

— Meg Wolitzer

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add…

— Chinua Achebe

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

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have…

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— Dorothy Garlock

We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods…

— Michael Helm