Amerikanisch / American Begriff / Notion Gesucht / Wanted Großartig / Great Hätten / Had Hochschule / College Rechnung / Bill Roman / Novel Schmutzig / Dirty Schreiben / Write
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.
There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
