Behinds Quote by Mickey Spillane

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

— Sam Shepard

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way…

— Andrea Bocelli

Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.

— Vladimir Sorokin

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

— Raymond Carver

I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic,…

— Richard Elman

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly…

— Adam Hochschild

No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except…

— Anonymous

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

— Haruki Murakami

I am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer.

— Joseph Brodsky

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be…

— Ian Frazier

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

— James T. Farrell