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Williams ' writings include mention of some of the poets and writers he most admired in his early years: Hart Crane, Anton Chekhov ( from the age of ten ), William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, August Strindberg, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Emily Dickinson.

In later years the list grew to include William Inge, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway ; of the latter, he said " great quality, aside from his prose style, is this fearless expression of brute nature.