Kind Quote by David Bowie

I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the minor ones...…

— Anne Sexton

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

— Stephen Dobyns

I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called…

— Douglas Florian

As an undergraduate, I took two writing workshops taught by Elizabeth Hardwick. She was certainly a major influence, though more as a writer I…

— Sigrid Nunez

The key thing in my becoming a writer was going on a Arvon Foundation residential writing course. I took with me a really messy…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

— David Almond

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now…

— Jack Prelutsky

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

— Barry Eisler