Being Quote by Chris Meledandri

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.…

— Christopher Meledandri

Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own…

— Chris Meledandri

I grew up watching different kinds of shows and films and read so many different authors.

— Sanya Malhotra

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work…

— Tim Burton

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

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

Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his…

— Spike Jonze

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

— will.i.am

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but…

— Rian Johnson

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis,…

— Danzy Senna

I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald, and so…

— Jim Starlin

There are a few of the authors that I think have made a great big impact on my life. The way I used to…

— Sandra Cisneros