Complexes Quote by John Grisham

Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a…

— Jesmyn Ward

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted…

— Karin Slaughter

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the…

— Erskine Caldwell

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

— Gore Vidal

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry,…

— Pierce Brosnan

Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as…

— Tom Perrotta

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,'…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was…

— John Gimlette

Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.

— Joe R. Lansdale

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it.…

— Ciaran Hinds

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a…

— Simon Callow

When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that…

— Walter Kirn