Been Quote by Gerry Beckley

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively…

— Tea Obreht

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

I have so many influences, you couldn't write them all down.

— Susan Tedeschi

People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing…

— Harvey Pekar

Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are. Not what my influences are, but who.. As…

— Robert Gober

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

“Your influences are all worth sharing because they clue people in to who you are and what you do—sometimes even more than your own…

— Austin Kleon

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

— Peter Benchley

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or…

— Jason Isbell

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

— Jean M. Auel

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and…

— Nan Goldin