Writers On Writers
“Every crime writer has been influenced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, even if only subconsciously.”
P. D James
“The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.”
Aldous Huxley
“I was terribly disturbed when I first read D. H Lawrence.”
Alice Munro
“After Malcolm Bradbury, my other important mentor was Angela Carter, who taught me a lot about the business of writing.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
“John Cowper Powys is really interested in sex, just as keen on it as Lawrence, but he understands and portrays it far better.”
Irish Murdoch
“Austen has always been a bit hit-or-miss with me, I must say.”
Julian Barnes
“I must fight a suspicion of conspiracy against my brain when I see blandly accepted…the pretentious nonsense of Mr Pound, that total fake.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“The Quiet American by Graham Greene…is a terrific, terrific book.”
Stephen King
“Charles Dickens wrote about Bill Sikes bludgeoning Nancy to death, getting blood all over everything, but if a woman had written that, nobody would have published it.”
Margaret Atwood
“Mark Twain talked about racial ideology in the most powerful, eloquent, and instructive way I have ever read.”
Toni Morrison
Sources: Google Books, The Paris Review, Brainy Quote
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