Army Quote by Gene Wolfe

I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the road so…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

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

— Don DeLillo

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

— Jack Nicholson

The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade.…

— Jim Morrison

Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of…

— J. Robert Spencer

I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my…

— James Arthur

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some…

— Jon Secada

Theatre and cinema have been major influences in my life.

— Mithila Palkar

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

— Dusty Hill

Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however…

— Amy Bloom

Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth…

— Richard North Patterson

Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced…

— Ernest Gellner