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William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro

My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.

— Amitava Kumar

“James Clerk Maxwell and his theory of electromagnetism. Born in 1831 in Edinburgh, Maxwell, the son of a Scottish landowner, was destined to become…

— Manjit Kumar

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists.…

— Alan Lightman

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee

The essay is a wonderful medium. I might mention that some writers who longed to be novelists were better as essayists: Sontag, Baldwin, Vidal,…

— Phillip Lopate

“Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon.”

— Douglas E. Richards

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

— Richard Rhodes

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but…

— Rian Johnson

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

— Carole King

“One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists…

— Basil Mahon

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood