Influence Quote by Anonymous

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

— S. E. Hinton

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

I can say without doubt, that reading has had a huge influence on my life.

— Tom Fletcher

The way you write affects what you say.

— Norman Mailer

I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any…

— Kevin Powers

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you…

— Walter Jon Williams

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

— Graham Nash

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

— Jeff VanderMeer

The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you…

— Maeve Binchy

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.

— Marianne Moore

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.

— Steve Diggle

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand…

— Siegfried Lenz