I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.
I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.
People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.
Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.
Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.