I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.
Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.
My story is very long. And for somebody to write a good story, one needs a good writer, too.
Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
Scripts that make characters a two-sentence description, I'm not interested in.
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
