Biggest Quote by Brad Holland

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

— Boz Scaggs

Probably the biggest influence on me, strange though it may sound, was the 70s, a decade of invention. Growing up then had a huge…

— Vic Reeves

My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going to the…

— Jon Connor

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

The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them…

— Robert Cormier

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones…

— Conor Oberst

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

My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I'm always pretty influenced by stuff from when we were younger.

— Kyle Mooney

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

— Horace Silver

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

— Don DeLillo

Who are my influences? Everybody.

— Cameron Esposito