He Quote by Jesmyn Ward

I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told…

— Jesmyn Ward

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a…

— John Irving

“who wrote book 1st”

— John Green

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

— Claire Danes

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

— Jill Davis

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee

Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

— Carole King

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.

— John Gimlette

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

— Louis Sachar

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

— Salman Rushdie

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read…

— Megan Abbott