Writing Quote by Luis Buñuel

John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand on a…

— Harry Belafonte

It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.

— Arthur Phillips

“The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base…

— Jarod Kintz

“I always tell people that if they want to know about the history of a country, do not go to the history books, go…

— Chenjerai Hove

“John is almost famous for not being famous," Williams compadre Dan Wakefield complained in 1986. "This is Hemingway without bluster, Fitzgerald without fashion, Faulkner…

— DanWakefield

The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as the writing…

— George Packer

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he…

— Leslie Fiedler

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

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of…

— William Faulkner

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

— Carson McCullers

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never…

— Edward Abbey

“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world -…

— Sara Sheridan