Allan Poe Quotes - Page 1

• Giles Foden / Author

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

• Andy Richter / Actor

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

• Margaret Atwood / Poet

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

• James Van Praagh / Author

I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.

• Jack Prelutsky / Writer

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

• John Green / Author

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

• William Friedkin / Film Director

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

• Susan Cheever / Author

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

• H. L. Mencken / Journalist

If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.