About Quote by Hisham Matar

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

— Franz Wright

You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred…

— David Denby

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius,…

— Andre Aciman

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

— Cynthia Rylant

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my…

— Gene Wilder

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels.…

— Ernest Gaines

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

— Bryce Dessner

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

— St. Vincent

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.

— Ludovico Einaudi

Indeed, I still read a fair amount of French literature and I am very attracted to the emotional depth and simplicity of writers such…

— Carol Drinkwater

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

— Mos Def