Admire Quote by Terry Eagleton

One of the people I most admired was Christopher Hitchens. He was extremely polarizing but extremely honest, to a fault sometimes, but I respected…

— Matthew Hussey

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far…

— Richard Dawkins

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

— John Gimlette

I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to…

— Wilbur Smith

I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I also read Dumas,…

— Erik Larson

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

— Ben Elliot

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels…

— Deborah Copaken Kogan

I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but…

— Philip Kitcher

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

— Kevin McCloud

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

— Russell Baker

I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't think I…

— Tao Lin

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves…

— Roger Avary