About Quote by Mike D

Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally speaking, most wine writing was…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

I'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose - I don't do succinct well, so I'm in awe of…

— Tana French

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.

— Madhur Bhandarkar

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to…

— S. E. Hinton

One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has…

— Karen MacNeil

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

— John Gimlette

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels…

— Deborah Copaken Kogan

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

— Jim Bishop

Wine is my passion. I'm not keen on the snobbery or elitism of wine, that's not what it's about - I just really enjoy…

— Mick Hucknall

I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each…

— Scott Turow

David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.

— T. R. Knight

I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.

— Bill Pullman