Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written.
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again.
When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.
I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read.
Harper Lee was my David Bowie, and I feel her loss in my bones.
I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.
George Martin is an incredible writer.
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
