About Quote by Karen Russell

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

— Mat Kearney

I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

— David Almond

I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse Stewart. They…

— Tyler Childers

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

— Kiran Desai

Flannery O'Connor is my creative hero. I think she's the greatest American writer. Her book, 'Mystery and Manners,' is my creative bible.

— Scott Derrickson

Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was…

— Mordecai Richler

Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I…

— Karin Slaughter

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi

There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the most different…

— Molly Antopol

I tried to fortify myself with the best nonfiction and fiction I could lay my hands on, from the essays of James Baldwin and…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams