“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingTryingSeemsPiecesInfluenceParticularDegreesDetermineAdmireInputCounterproductive Author:Kevin Powers
“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.” WritingBookFunnyReadingAdmire Author:Anatole France
“I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.” PeopleWayWritingHeartSpeakEffectsMy HeartAdmireOne WayElegantNaturalismHares Author:Bill Nighy
“I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.” WritingWellsCollegeConsequenceDetailsAdmireDaily LifeCaptureSmallestVirginiaWoolf Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.” WorldWantWritingMindWellsMayArtBookAbleArtistPleasureAttentionStudyPiecesProductsReaderSucceedStructureAdmireDividing Author:Annie Dillard
“Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.” WritingFatherPoetPatternsAdmireDramatic Author:John Dryden