Good writers Quote by Henry Rollins

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested…

— Jonathan Dee

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence…

— Neil Gaiman

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I…

— Nell Freudenberger

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as…

— Henry Rollins

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara…

— Virginia Henley

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht…

— John Scalzi