Genre Quote by Sara Paretsky

It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I particularly like Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. Both writers have wit and imagination and the breadth of stories they tell coupled with extraordinary…

— Michael Ball

I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I don't really think of myself so much as a writer as a stylist, someone who came into writing from the back door and…

— Lindsey Buckingham

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

— Mat Kearney

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

— Leslie Fiedler

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

— Helen Vendler

Robert Browning - I like his dramatic revelations, his allegorical form.

— Chris de Burgh

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

— Helen Vendler

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

— Stephen Dobyns