Alive Quote by Sam Lipsyte

Yes, Atticus Finch is a literary creation, but he stands for something real and enduring.

— Jamelle Bouie

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

— Gary Shteyngart

I'm pleased to say that it [ a paper on the history of Attica] got much recognition with a 99 grade. It was shown…

— Paul Smith

“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a…

— Doris Lessing

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

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience…

— Kiese Laymon

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.

— Paul Smith

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

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

— Diane Johnson

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

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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

— Thomas Steinbeck