The Great American Novel Quotes

“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, The Great American Novel

“It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America, but it pictures the people and the customs and the drama of upstate New York in the days preceding and following the Civil War with a simplicity that, to my mind, is true art.”
― Clyde Brion Davis, The Great American Novel

“We have seen the death of Republicanism, of special privilege and national boodle.”
― Clyde Brion Davis, The Great American Novel

“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.”
― Clyde Brion Davis, The Great American Novel

“I'll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world."
"Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?"
"We've got to have a still bigger navy because we're the richest nation on earth.”
― Clyde Brion Davis, The Great American Novel