Influence Quote by Jack Vance

Ralph Waldo Emerson was the first author or transcendentalist that I connected with and resonated with. And I found that when I was in…

— Jenna Ortega

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

— Warren MacKenzie

There were authors I read as an adult who completely inspired me. But when I was a teenager, I got to hang out with…

— Nick Hornby

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

— Tomi Adeyemi

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years…

— Dove Cameron

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton

I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those…

— Wendy Lesser

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

— Paul McCartney

Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but…

— Rian Johnson

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

— Howard Nemerov

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

— Tanith Lee

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro