American literature Quote by Michael Chabon

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

— Kiran Desai

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony…

— Ian Rankin

Like most authors, I also love to read.

— Aprilynne Pike

The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,' 'The Magus,'…

— Elizabeth George

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm very much a writer at heart.

— Jamelle Bouie

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

I love writing literary stuff. My favorite writer is definitely Edgar Allan Poe - so imaginative and prolific. My second favorite writer would have…

— MC Lars

I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time he was.

— Laila Lalami

We read everything - from the Unabomber to Camille Paglia to Martin Luther King Jr. - and I really fell in love with the…

— Steven Rinella

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee

There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the top of…

— Renee Watson