About Quote by Mick Foley

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

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how it revealed…

— Victoria Wilson

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

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

— Dan Chaon

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've…

— Andrea Barrett

I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Whereas…

— Jane Badler

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— David Almond

Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to say. This…

— Sabina Murray

I enjoy working with Deborah Ann, I think she's brilliant. It's been a joy.

— Rutina Wesley

I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.

— Roseanne Barr

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to…

— Jeff VanderMeer