Bad boy Quote by Sam Tanenhaus

George Martin is an incredible writer.

— Peter Dinklage

I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he…

— Terry Eagleton

“One of those adversaries was Kevin Maxwell, the privileged son of a hard-charging UK media mogul. Anyone who had taken on Maxwell and his…

— Dan Ackerman

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

— Russell Baker

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

— Dashiell Hammett

Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick…

— Michiko Kakutani

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

— Donna Tartt

I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors in the…

— Neil Gaiman

“The authors we classified as villains, detractors, and bad role models for our children are part of the educational curriculum. Freethinkers and the gutsy…

— Julia Ann Charpentier

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of…

— Anne Rice

Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've…

— J. Michael Straczynski