Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great…

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

— Jerry Saltz

Much like Tim Minchin, I'd love to write and appear in a West End Musical. That's the dream.

— Rachel Parris

I used to like Tim Hardaway.

— Baron Davis

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly literate American…

— Ron Franscell

“Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too." - Jim Harrison”

— Rod Drought

From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book…

— Greta Salpeter

“‎I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from "Conversations with Jim Harrison”

— Jim Harrison

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

— David Quammen

I was once referred to in a Kirkus review as a "northern Michigan version of Andre Dubus." My editor called me after the review…

— Jack Driscoll

“I walk to think and not to think. When walking I remember things that are important to me. I walk to forget. I have…

— Susan Minot

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

— Prue Leith

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

— Linda Simon

I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.

— Mariella Frostrup

“It's always difficult when people compare me unfavorably with other contemporary writers. It's much easier when they use examples from earlier eras of fiction.…

— Tad Williams