Contemporary Quote by Murray Leinster

Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically anything I've…

— Tom Wolfe

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.

— Alan Menken

“He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'. Howard didn't…

— Zadie Smith

A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single largest influence…

— Donald E. Westlake

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive…

— Gloria Swanson

I always thought Stuart deserved a little bit of fame. He was a gifted artist and a very wonderful person.

— Astrid Kirchherr

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

— V. S. Pritchett

All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I…

— Henry Rollins

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from…

— Philip Kitcher