Books Quote by David Cage

Writing has been one of the most powerful influences in my life and it always has been since I was a little girl.

— Evangeline Lilly

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— Graham Nash

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively…

— Tea Obreht

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you…

— Thom Gunn

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to…

— Vera Nazarian

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

— Peter Benchley

The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me.

— Gerry Beckley

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

— Jean M. Auel

Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are. Not what my influences are, but who.. As…

— Robert Gober

Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

— Dee Rees