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

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.