Eastern Quote by Dylan Moran

One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but…

— Stanley Kunitz

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

— Paloma Faith

I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.

— Hisham Matar

I am very interested in writers from the Francophone world. I like Kamel Daoud a lot, for example. In "The Meursault Investigation" and "Zabor,"…

— Emmanuel Macron

Sometimes someone will tell me about an author I've never heard of before and that will send me to that person. That's how I…

— Stephen Dobyns

One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio.…

— Stephen Greenblatt

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

— Franz Wright

I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Julian Barnes

I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.

— Peter Handke

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

— Andrej Pejic

Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer.

— Olga Tokarczuk