Book Quote by Elizabeth Crook

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William…

— Harlan Coben

I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan…

— John Krasinski

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one…

— Ben Fountain

Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past coming out…

— Michael Connelly

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

— Nathan Englander

The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the…

— Isaac Marion

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

— Margaret Atwood

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the…

— James Frey

The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,' 'The Magus,'…

— Elizabeth George

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

— Iris Johansen

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

— Edward P. Jones