Affinity Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“The review L’Arc, meanwhile, wished to devote a complete issue to Derrida. Catherine Clément submitted a list of contributors in which there were more…

— Benoît Peeters

The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,' 'The Magus,'…

— Elizabeth George

Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts.

— Tarja Turunen

“As Marguerite Derrida puts it: ‘I’ve always thought that it was mainly through his capacity for listening that Jacques could seduce women.”

— Benoît Peeters

At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints…

— Hozier

“Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in, and sometimes,…

— Edward Abbey

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

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

— Franz Wright

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

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be…

— Edmund White