Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.