Influence Quote by Carole King

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee

I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

— Peter Straub

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

— Warren MacKenzie

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

— Steve Toltz

I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints…

— Hozier

The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,' 'The Magus,'…

— Elizabeth George

I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

— Cynthia Rylant

I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have to break…

— Jesse Andrews

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even…

— Cynthia Ozick

I'm very much a writer at heart.

— Jamelle Bouie

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

— Nathan Englander