Abstract Quote by Don DeLillo

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given…

— James Frey

For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about…

— David Cage

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

— Peter Benchley

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

As a writer, I've always been the sum total of my influences, and those are all over the spectrum: Rachmaninov, the Who, the Beatles,…

— Eric Carmen

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

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

— Anne Rice

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

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

— Gerry Beckley

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

— Kevin Barry

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets,

— Anonymous

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats,…

— Hal Duncan