Favorite Writers Quotes

#1. There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

David Bowie

#2. Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.

Dinaw Mengestu

#3. I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#4. Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.

J.K. Rowling

#5. I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.

Emily Perkins

#6. I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few ... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.

Bob Seger

#8. My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.

Ray Bradbury

#9. Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

Smokey Robinson

#10. I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so say for example if look at William Gibson and his book Neuromancer or if you look at J.G. Ballard or Samuel Delaney those are probably three of my favorite writers in that genre.

DJ Spooky

#11. My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

Zig Ziglar

#12. Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.

Pamela Sargent

#13. One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

Stella Gibbons

#14. One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Sandra Cisneros

#15. Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.

Gene Luen Yang

#16. I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

Tahmoh Penikett

#17. One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a talent of Borges' caliber, but he is an inspiration and a proof that one can be a meaningful and successful writer while blind.

Larry Howes

#18. I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny ... I forgive him everything.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.

Anne Lamott

#20. Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#21. Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"

"My favorite character died.

Joyce Rachelle

#22. Some of my favorite contemporary Montana writers and their books include Annick Smith's Homestead, a memoir of her experiences, along with her husband and four children, homesteading in the Blackfoot Valley on 163 acres in the 1960s; Deirdre

Nancy Pearl

#23. Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone's eyes can mesmerize me for years!

Avijeet Das

#24. Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.

Marian Keyes

#25. My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

Kinky Friedman

#26. I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

Lisa Scottoline

#27. From childhood on, I found many of my angels in favorite authors, writers who created books that enabled me to understand life with greater complexity. These works opened my heart to compassion, forgiveness, and understanding.

Bell Hooks

#28. One of my favorite things about 'Castle' is the fact our writers and producers are so collaborative. They allow us to bring in ideas, and they try to make them happen for us.

Jon Huertas

#29. What's my favorite part that I've written? That's like asking me to choose which of my kids is least ugly!

Matthew Catania

#30. A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

Jon Hurwitz

#31. My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night!

Avijeet Das

#32. If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest ... she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

Ned Rorem

#33. Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters.

Tatiana Maslany

#34. These aren't accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs.

Phyllis Rose

#35. It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

Al Yankovic

#36. Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.

Beverly Cleary

#37. I really like scripted dramas. My favorite show of all time would have to be 'Lost': I loved how the writers and producers were able to weave the different storylines together; and the acting in that show was incredible.

Nick Jonas

#38. Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

Claire Danes