Imagination Quote by Jack Vance

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a…

— Simon Callow

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

All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I…

— Henry Rollins

I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.

— David Droga

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

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of…

— Bob Kane

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men…

— Andrew O'Hagan

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

— Angie Dickinson

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

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson…

— Lydia Davis