Admire Quote by David Hare

David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.

— T. R. Knight

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If…

— Tom Hardy

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

— Val Kilmer

“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and…

— Anthony Burgess

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful.”

— Douglas Bond

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

— Adrianne Palicki

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to…

— Rob Lowe

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

— George Orwell

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

— Henry James

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant…

— Don DeLillo

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy