Writer Admiration Quotes

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.

Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have.

I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

My favourite writer is John Maxwell Coetzee.

I love Martin Amis.

Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.