Writers
- Ingeborg Bachmann, poet, 1926–1973
- Hermann Bahr, playwright, novelist 1863–1934
- Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline books, 1898–1962.
- Thomas Bernhard, dramatist, novelist, poet, 1931–1989, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands
- Max Brod, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic) 1884–1968, wrote in German
- Heimito von Doderer, writer, 1896–1966, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (style: psychological novelist)
- Franz Grillparzer, poet, 1791–1872, Vienna
- Robert Hamerling, poet 1830–1889
- Peter Handke, author, born in 1942 in Griffen (Carinthia)
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, dramatist, writer
- Karl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner, poet, writer, 1800–1890, born in Graz
- Alexander Lernet-Holenia, novelist, poet, dramtist, critic, 1897–1976
- Robert Musil, writer
- Johann Nestroy, famous playwright
- Christine Nöstlinger, writer (especially literature for children)
- Christoph Ransmayr, writer
- Ferdinand Raimund, writer and dramatist
- Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist, born in Prague, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic) 1875–1926
- Peter Rosegger, writer, teacher & Styrian hero & visionary 1843–1918
- Adalbert Stifter, poet and artist (died 1869)
- Bertha von Suttner, writer and pacifist Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Prague, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic) 1843–1914
- Georg Trakl, poet
- Josef Weinheber, poet and essayist
- Oswald von Wolkenstein, writer and composer 1376–1445
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“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. ...If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
—Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
“Most writers steal a good thing when they can,
And when ‘tis safely got ‘tis worth the winning.
The worst of ‘t is we now and then detect ‘em,
Before they ever dream that we suspect ‘em.”
—Bryan Waller Proctor (1787–1874)
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—Robert Musil (1880–1942)