Backgrounds Quote by Jack Vance

I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage…

— Michael Giacchino

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you…

— Walter Jon Williams

I very rarely write anything before what I see what I'm writing for.

— Henry Mancini

I write constantly about everything.

— Tom Sturridge

My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.

— Michael Giacchino

When I write, it's almost like it really sets in my brain. I don't ever go back and read it.

— Jon Rahm

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

— Justin Cronin

I haven't even read everything I wrote.

— Karl Barth

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

— Jon Hopkins

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

— Alice Walker

I've got a habit of writing about everything I go through.

— Akon

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.

— Peter Benchley