Robert Kennedy Quotes

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'

Find out who Sartre is.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I'm ashamed how little science fiction I've read.

When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.

Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

I don't read much, I don't have the time. But I'm not at all happy about that; I want to read more. It's a promise I made to myself. I think it's important.

I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.

I've always been a big fan of Stephen King, especially in my teenage years.

And I was very, very much influenced by the films of Jean Cocteau and by Sartre and everything that came out of France because it was closer than America or England.

I want to write books.

Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.

If I could do it all over again, I would have never gone to Russia.

'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.

One of my favorite authors is Michael Ondaatje.

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

I never read about photography.

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.