Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to… — Don King Copy Share Image
Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not… — Marlene van Niekerk Copy Share Image
There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“An aversion came over me that we feel for all the mutilated. Why is that so, do you think? Because they put… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
