I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
