Life Quote by Ann Patchett

I still think about the writers I loved when I was a kid.

— Dan Chaon

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

Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

— Jenny Zhang

Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse Stewart. They…

— Tyler Childers

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

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

— Nathan Englander

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

— Anthony Shadid

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

— Louis Sachar

I love John Updike immoderately. I am profoundly shocked that he has gone because he was, for me, the greatest American writer of the…

— Justin Cartwright

I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

— Maeve Binchy

My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.

— Ray Bradbury