Affinity Quote by Kevin Barry

I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.

— Dean Ornish

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

— William Zinsser

I admire John Prine and his way with words.

— Tyler Childers

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

There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang out with…

— Nick Hornby

In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes,…

— Red Smith

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American…

— Brian Lumley

Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.

— Richard Dawkins

My inspiration is the one and only godfather of comedy himself, Richard Pryor. He's the greatest.

— Eddie Griffin

Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.

— Clarence Darrow

Just like everyone else, I was a big fan of Paul Bearer and Percy Pringle and all of the other names that he went…

— Kane

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