American Novel Quotes
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American Novel Quotes & Sayings
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I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.
— Kiese Laymon
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.
— Theodore Dreiser
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
— Robert Hughes
West Point - The Key to the Continent and Independence.
— P.J. Parker
My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.
— Anne Waldman
The Day of Trouble is Near
— P.J. Parker
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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 the People . . . The People of the Long House.
— P.J. Parker
The Sleepin' Fox Catches No Poultry.
— P.J. Parker
My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.
— Shawn Stewart Ruff
Do you not recognize me?
— P.J. Parker
Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
— Roy L. Pickering Jr.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
— John Hodgman
Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.
— A.E. Samaan
I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
— P.J. Parker
Translation is so important. The new American translations of the Bible sound like a Judith Krantz novel.
— Rabih Alameddine
The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.
— P.J. Parker
But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Once you break someone's heart, you are forever its master.
— Roy L. Pickering Jr.
Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence.
— Roy L. Pickering Jr.
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
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
Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.
— Roy L. Pickering Jr.
