A Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.

Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson
American - Writer
Born: February 12, 1963

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

Danzy Senna

I admire Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Strout, D. O. Fagunwa, Sefi Atta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin and Junot Diaz. It's a long list that keeps growing.

Ayobami Adebayo

I encourage everyone to read James Baldwin and Malcom X and Aldous Huxley. To read Primo Levi. To read 'Silent Spring.' To read Toni Morrison. To read Zora Neale Hurston.

Zoe Kazan

I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

Ira Glass

I like Raymond Carver's poetry a lot.

Gord Downie

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

John Henrik Clarke

I love James Baldwin's autobiographical writing.

Carrie Brownstein

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

Lorde

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.