About Quote by Andrew O'Hagan

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William…

— Harlan Coben

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

— Tomi Adeyemi

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

— Julian Barnes

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

— Nathan Englander

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

— Steven Cojocaru

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had…

— Robert Adamson

Writing has been one of the most powerful influences in my life and it always has been since I was a little girl.

— Evangeline Lilly

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the…

— Amy Bloom