Best literature Quote by August Wilson

I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.'…

— August Wilson

My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what…

— Hasan Minhaj

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is…

— Jonny Lang

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

— Dashiell Hammett

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

— Horace Silver

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you…

— Thom Gunn

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

— Princess Nokia

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root,"…

— Bernice L. McFadden

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and…

— Yael Naim

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me…

— Douglas Preston

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

— Brad Holland