Alice Quote by Emily Perkins

My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story.

— Chloe Benjamin

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's…

— Ann Beattie

I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short…

— Laurel Nakadate

I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just…

— Molly Antopol

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

— Madhur Bhandarkar

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I…

— Nell Freudenberger

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do…

— Dani Shapiro

My favourite authors are John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer. Grisham rapidly established himself and now completely owns the legal space of fiction writing, something…

— Ravi Subramanian

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I love to read the kind of books I write. Genre-breaking. Fresh-concept. World-building. My all-time top three authors would have to be Cormac McCarthy,…

— Blake Crouch

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

— Conor Oberst

Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's the best…

— Lucy Alibar