Books Quote by Shiree Mccarver

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

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

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

— Dorothy Garlock

“If you want to see the best novelist, it's yourself. try to write all your stories on a blank sheet of paper then you'll…

— Miraeniuzz Sanaf

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

— Gore Vidal

I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony,…

— Eric Stoltz

“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.”

— Ursula Markham

“I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer,is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your…

— Maegan Cook

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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