Admire Quote by Sam Shepard

If I had to read only one author, it would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I love the mystical, magical quality of his writing.

— Tory Burch

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms,…

— Helen Oyeyemi

A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass,…

— Stephen Kinzer

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

— Mickey Spillane

If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things…

— Dave Barry

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I…

— John Green

Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to…

— Tatiana Maslany

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

— Gena Showalter

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

Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar.

— Mukul Dev

If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say…

— Vikram Seth