American writer Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice…

— Porochista Khakpour

With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at Melville House,…

— Adam Morris

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the…

— Paul Theroux

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read…

— Megan Abbott

When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."

— Sandra Cisneros

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United…

— Kate Beckinsale

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that…

— Jo Nesbo

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

— Anne Waldman

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