American Quote by Justin Cartwright

I love everything about Benedict Cumberbatch because he's so intelligent and talented.

— Cody Fern

I think it's pretty apparent who my favorites are because I keep coming back to them. At the top of that list would be…

— Michael Connelly

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

— Conor Oberst

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

— Ann Patchett

I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at…

— Lucas Neff

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

— M. H. Abrams

I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern day Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years,…

— Melissa Benoist

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to…

— Jim Jarmusch

My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.

— Amitava Kumar

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great…

— Neil Gaiman

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March

I once saw John Updike get in front of a crowd and read a story that he'd written in 1958, and I just thought,…

— Jonathan Dee