Being Quote by Alastair Reynolds

I am looking for different roles as many writers are coming up with the same kind of characters.

— Rao Ramesh

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.

— Kathryn Lasky

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 grew up watching different kinds of shows and films and read so many different authors.

— Sanya Malhotra

I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it was really…

— Jude Law

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht…

— John Scalzi

It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But nothing bothers…

— B. J. Novak

Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults.

— Stellan Skarsgard

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara…

— Virginia Henley

Diane Keaton was a big role model for me.

— Andie MacDowell