Atonement Quote by John Banville

What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.… a tour…

— Noah Richler

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels…

— Deborah Copaken Kogan

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

— John Gimlette

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

— Raymond Chandler

The most original novelist now writing in English.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of…

— Willa Cather

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And…

— Dylan Thomas

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

— Russell Lynes

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

— Anthony Horowitz

“Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long months, even…

— Bryan Forbes

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

— Oscar Wilde