Contemporary Quote by Ross Macdonald

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

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

“Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old,…

— Gillian Flynn

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

— Paul McCartney

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could…

— Woody Allen

My literary heroes all wrote about L.A.: Joseph Wambaugh, Ross Macdonald, and Raymond Chandler were the three writers that made me want to be…

— Michael Connelly

If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and…

— Jonathan Franzen

“I write nonfiction because individuals are unique and go through different experiences, our collective experiences enhances all our lives.”

— Thaddeus O. Lawrence

“Years ago I conducted a course in fiction writing at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and we wanted such distinguished and busy…

— Dale Carnegie

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a…

— Tana French

If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and…

— Matthew Desmond

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

— Douglas Kennedy