Books Quote by Don Winslow

The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara,…

— Elmore Leonard

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

— Kevin Barry

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

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

People have asked me throughout the years which directors have influenced me. I don't know their names, because I was mostly influenced when I'd…

— Robert Altman

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

— Don DeLillo

Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity…

— William Monahan

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

— Ralph Lauren

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue…

— Michael Connelly

I did not grow up around films. So, I would say books have been my major influence.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I was highly influenced by violence.

— Ryan Gosling