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The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,'…

— Neil Gaiman

I loved Bernard Cornwell's books.

— Alexander Dreymon

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

— Nathan Englander

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 was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape…

— Ann Patchett

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find…

— Evelyn Waugh

The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new…

— William Goldman

“Oh, don't get me started! I love fantasy, I read it for pleasure, even after all these years. Pat McKillip, Ursula Le Guin and…

— Terri Windling

At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

— J. I. Packer

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the…

— Amy Bloom

Early influences included Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Richard Ford, Alice Munro, Denis Johnson - writers who are important to me still and…

— Laura van den Berg