Consciousness Quote by Garth Greenwell

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

— Hisham Matar

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was…

— Mordecai Richler

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de…

— Michel de Montaigne

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

— Tony Campolo

I'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose - I don't do succinct well, so I'm in awe of…

— Tana French

“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not made otherwise—for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi

There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the most different…

— Molly Antopol

Sincere composers believe in God.

— John Philip Sousa

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

— Thomas Perry

“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.”

— Jamie L. Harding