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Great American Novel Quotes

When I first got back from the war, I said, ‘I’m gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.’ So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’m not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers Picture Quote #1

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel Picture Quote #1

I think ‘Gatsby’ is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they’ve even opened it, treat it with a ‘been there, done that’ attitude. I know I did. It took me years to re-open the novel and see how much I’d missed Picture Quote #1

At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a disastrous effect of making me think I needed to write the next great Jewish American novel. As a ginger-haired child in the West of Ireland, that didn’t work out very well, as you can imagine Picture Quote #1

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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn’t have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God Picture Quote #1

I got the feeling: It’s time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel Picture Quote #1

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel ‘Deliverance’ was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of ‘The Great Gatsby.’ Picture Quote #1

When I was young, I kept trying to read ‘Moby-Dick’, and I couldn’t get that far into it. And I kept thinking, ‘Well, man, if I can’t read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.’ And this bothered me a great deal Picture Quote #1

I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was written about a white whale in the South Pacific Picture Quote #1

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out Picture Quote #1

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When I first got back from the war, I said, ‘I’m gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.’ So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet (Great American Novel Quotes) 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 (Great American Novel Quotes) I’m not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers (Great American Novel Quotes) My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel. (Great American Novel Quotes) I think ‘Gatsby’ is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they’ve even opened it, treat it with a ‘been there, done that’ attitude. I know I did. It took me years to re-open the novel and see how much I’d missed. (Great American Novel Quotes) At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a disastrous effect of making me think I needed to write the next great Jewish American novel. As a ginger-haired child in the West of Ireland, that didn’t work out very well, as you can imagine. (Great American Novel Quotes) When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn’t have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God. (Great American Novel Quotes) I got the feeling: It’s time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel. (Great American Novel Quotes) Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel ‘Deliverance’ was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of ‘The Great Gatsby.’ (Great American Novel Quotes) When I was young, I kept trying to read ‘Moby-Dick’, and I couldn’t get that far into it. And I kept thinking, ‘Well, man, if I can’t read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.’ And this bothered me a great deal. (Great American Novel Quotes) I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was written about a white whale in the South Pacific (Great American Novel Quotes) You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out (Great American Novel Quotes)