Different Quote by Alan Lightman

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

— Gerry Beckley

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

— Peter Benchley

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

— Jean M. Auel

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

— Rene Russo

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came…

— Margaret Mahy

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to…

— Vera Nazarian

For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about…

— David Cage

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

— Kwame Dawes

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

— Don DeLillo

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

— Graham Nash