Writers
- Stesichorus (c. 640 – 555 BC), poet
- Timaeus (c. 345 – 250 BC), historian
- Theocritus (c. 310 – 250 BC), poet
- Diodorus Siculus (c. 90 – 30 BC), historian
- Giacomo da Lentini (1210 – 1260), poet
- Guido Delle Colonne (1215 – 1290), poet
- Giovanni Luca Barberi (1452 – 1520), historian
- Tommaso Fazello (1498 – 1570), historian
- Antonio Veneziano (1543 – 1593), poet
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896 – 1957), writer, poet
- Giovanni Meli (1740 – 1815), poet
- Luigi Capuana (1839 – 1915), writer
- Giovanni Verga (1840 – 1922), novelist
- Giuseppe Pitrè (1841 – 1916), historian
- Luigi Pirandello (1867 – 1936), dramatist, Nobel laureate
- Julius Evola (1898 – 1974), political philosopher
- Ignazio Buttitta (1899 – 1997), poet
- Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 – 1968), poet, Nobel laureate
- Vitaliano Brancati (1907 – 1954), writer
- Elio Vittorini (1908 – 1966), writer
- Gesualdo Bufalino (1920 – 1996), writer
- Leonardo Sciascia (1921 – 1989), writer and politician
- Giuseppe Fava (1925 – 1984), writer and dramatist
- Andrea Camilleri (born 1925), novelist
- Gaetano Cipolla (born 1937), Sicilian-to-English translator, author, publisher of the journal Arba Sicula
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Famous quotes containing the word writers:
“When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B’s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself “Why?” afterwards than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor in depth.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)