Achieved Quote by Alain de Botton

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

Knut Hamsun's writing is magical. His sentences are glowing; he could write about anything and make it alive. Of contemporary writers, Thure Erik Lund…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later…

— Santiago Calatrava

Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who…

— Anthony Hecht

The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,' 'The Magus,'…

— Elizabeth George

I love Le Carre's writing.

— Florence Pugh

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

— Franz Wright

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

Cormac McCarthy is my favorite author in the world. I love him so much. There's one book that informs me more than The Road…

— Matt de la Pena

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

— Tommy Lee Jones

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

— Andrej Pejic

One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In…

— Robert Aris Willmott