In 2010, the global trend spotting website Science of the Time described Simpson as 'the world's most perceptive writer about masculinity'.

Mr. Morris is a perceptive writer, and his books are a pleasure to read.

Mary Gordon is an honest and perceptive writer.

The Manchester Evening News said that he was 'slowly establishing himself as one of the most perceptive writers in the country'.

He also upholds the right of any perceptive writer to seek autobiographical meaning in artistic form.

His extensive letters home, as well as his journal entries, show him to have been a lively, entertaining and perceptive writer.

"Gordon is an honest and perceptive writer," Hilary Mantel wrote in these pages last year.

Umrigar is a perceptive and often piercing writer, although her prose occasionally tips into flamboyant overstatement.

Salman Rushdie, a perceptive Indian-born writer, is no exception.

A skilled and perceptive writer, she explained sociological concepts and principles clearly and concisely to popular audiences.