Deny Quote by William Golding

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

— Douglas Kennedy

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go…

— John le Carre

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

— Alan Furst

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

— Lillian Hellman

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

— Hugh Leonard

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never…

— Leslie Fiedler

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins…

— Ross Macdonald

“He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand copies.”

— Ayn Rand

“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,…

— Gustave Flaubert

There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age. Jack Vance…

— Dan Simmons

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us…

— Thomas King

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler