Influence Quote by Don Winslow Download Open image “My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.” — Don Winslow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Influence Kid Read Shakespeare
The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as… — Xavier Samuel Copy Share Image
I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language. — John David Washington Copy Share Image
I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“We proclaimed the freedom of the individual, bought and drove millions of cars to prove it, built more roads for the cars to drive… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I used to joke that my next book would be about puppies that have lost a chew toy, and everywhere they went, people were… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Shane Salerno and I adapted my book Savages together, and I learned a lot about adaptation. I think it's an extremely difficult thing to… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn...… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Hell isn't having no choice. It's having to make a choice between horrific things.” — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
My coach, Robert Allen, helped me a lot. He had more influence on my growth as a player than anyone else. — LaMarcus Aldridge Copy Share Image
Life is not about how much you have but how much you have affect others life positively. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
Words can only have an effect on you if you choose to listen to them. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
