Also Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

— Kiran Desai

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

— David Almond

I took a fiction-writing workshop my sophomore year at Northwestern, and I hadn't yet read Junot Diaz or George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor. There was…

— Karen Russell

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask…

— Joe Mantello

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

— Mat Kearney

Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible.

— Scott Derrickson

I love Crews, but had been writing a long time before I knew of him. I learned of him because a friend thought we…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse Stewart. They…

— Tyler Childers

There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the top of…

— Renee Watson

There are a lot of good writers in TV!

— Jake Tapper

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch…

— Kem Nunn

I always loved Flannery O'Conner, and how she's not trying to create sympathetic characters.

— Lee Isaac Chung