About Quote by Nathaniel Rich

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them…

— Grazia Deledda

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in…

— Loretta Napoleoni

Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who speak Italian…

— Miroslav Penkov

Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He's a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' which I made a…

— Milos Forman

Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts.

— Tarja Turunen

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we…

— Sandra Cisneros

As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on the presentation…

— Martha Nussbaum

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for…

— Dylan Moran

“What is your dissertation, Ilana Davita?” “Babel and Camus: Twists of Fate and Faith. Babel’s The Red Cavalry and Camus’s The Stranger.”

— Chaim Potok

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years…

— Miguel Syjuco

I really am a very research-oriented writer.

— Eric Kripke

When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension, and Nora Roberts for characterization.

— Stacey Abrams