Books Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a…

— David Milch

Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.

— Peter Heller

The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white…

— Richard Meltzer

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from.

— Nelson DeMille

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had…

— James Rollins

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me…

— Lee Pace

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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 was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

— David Grann