John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I am very interested in writers from the Francophone world. I like Kamel Daoud a lot, for example. In "The Meursault Investigation"… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Ally wasn't disappointed in the writers: she hadn't expected anything from them in the first place; it hadn't occurred to her to… — Tessa Hadley Copy Share Image
