Great American Novel Quotes
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Great American Novel Quotes & Sayings
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A life of clean lines
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.
— Theodore Dreiser
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.
— Anne Waldman
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
— W. Somerset Maugham
In matters concerning God, you have to believe, not reason," Herbert would say. "If you reason, God vanishes like a mouthful of smoke." Roger
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.
— Tom T. Hall
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers.
— Dorothy Garlock
People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.
— Judy Martz
When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.
— Aoife O'Donovan
She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.
— Clyde Brion Davis
I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.
— Tony D'Souza
Yorri was never mine, and Tessen will never be mine, because all we can ever be is our own.
— Erica Cameron
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
— John Quincy Adams