I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I'm the sort of writer who likes to leave doors open for readers.

— Kameron Hurley

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on.…

— James Laughlin

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part…

— Kenneth Koch

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

— Diana Vreeland

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a…

— Karen Joy Fowler

I studied ethnomusicology for a while, but I don't think that really influenced my music.

— Christian Fennesz

I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always…

— G-Eazy

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

— Lenny Bruce

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

— Sam Rockwell

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

— Bruce Springsteen

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

— Charles de Gaulle

Little did I know how much the Runaways had influenced so many people.

— Cherie Currie