Answers Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

— Julian Barnes

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all…

— Elie Wiesel

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in…

— Jim Harrison

I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of…

— William Golding

I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted…

— Patrick Modiano

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

— Horace Walpole

I'm a French director, but what's important for me is that my stories have a universal message, whatever language they're filmed in.

— Maimouna Doucoure

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind…

— Camille Paglia

France is very welcoming to foreign writers.

— Israel Horovitz

The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.

— Cardinal Mazarin

The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.

— Pamela Druckerman