Great American Quotes

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

How I Learned to Drive I think it's one of the great American plays. Its one of those plays that will be done forever, and it's timeless. I think it, for me, has so much heart and so much love.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they've done, is amazing. They've educated some of the best American designers.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

A Trump presidency will turn the economy around and restore the great American tradition of giving each new generation hope for brighter opportunities than those of the generation that came before.