My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me…

My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few…

— Reid Hoffman

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or…

— Jason Isbell

“You could say, in a way, that I'm not actually a writer, though perhaps I might be called a recorder? ... I just happen…

— Etienne de L'Amour

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material.…

— George Carlin

Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a writer which…

— Shoojit Sircar

“It isn’t much, but it allows the writer a place of reflection, a place to discuss anything with nobody.”

— Forbes West

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

— Brian Aldiss

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love…

— Louise Erdrich

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and…

— Jodi Picoult

“We are constantly evolving products of the influences we take into our brains. What we look at, what we long for-to a large extent,…

— Anne Bogel

Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to…

— Avril Lavigne

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore

Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play lead guitar…

— Steve Miller

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

— Ambrose Bierce