Modern Writers Quotes

The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.